Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

1. Identify which of the multiple intelligences you have strengths in and then discuss some of the core characteristics of that (or those) intelligences. Discuss which of the core characteristics best describe you and your learning style.
Of the nine intelligences, my biggest strength is in the Visual Intelligence. The core characteristics of the Visual Intelligence are spatial awareness, non-sequential reasoning, visual acuity, imagination, and small motor coordination. The core characteristics that best describe me are non-sequential reasoning, imagination, and small motor coordination. I am very good at thinking outside the box and I am able to "see" ideas. I can have mental images of ideas before I actually "conduct" the idea. I enjoy rearranging the environment as much as possible so things don't get boring. In elementary school, I would always want the teacher to rearrange the classroom and desks so it was more interesting to the students.

2. Discuss what students with this type of intelligence enjoy, are like, or tend to do within classroom settings. Students with a strong visual intelligence seek ocular stimulation, respond to color and shape, can "see" their ideas, enjoy expressing themselves through art, enjoy rearranging their environment, and understand by seeing a concept in action.

3. Discuss how you will support this type of intelligence within your classroom and within your teaching.
I as a teacher, would support this type of intelligence within my classroom and within my teaching by brainstorming ideas with the students, providing a visually stimulating environment, allowing students to move around the classroom, providing visual assessment performance tasks, using visual technologies, sketching plans before beginning work, having guided imagery exercises and semantic mapping, working with manipulatives, and diagramming abstract concepts.

4. Discuss what technologies stimulate thus type of intelligence.
The technologies that stimulate this type of intelligence are overhead projector, video, television, picture books, digital camera, scanner, slide shows, art supplies, dry erase board, graphing, charting, digital animation and movies.


5. And finally, discuss how you see your attention to multiple intelligences could impact student learning within your classroom.
Knowing that I am a visual learner helped me realize that all children learn differently and they may be a different kind of learner than I am. This means that I have to accommodate for all learners in my classroom; not just the one that I am or the most popular learning style. I have to be able to teach all kinds of learners no matter what!

Day One

Hello, I am Molly Hennessy. This class seems like it will be very exciting and beneficial for my education!