After taking the multiple intelligence quiz, my three highest areas were social (interpersonal), musical, and self (intrapersonal). I think this is very accurate because I do consider myself a "people person". I love working in groups and so I tend to do many group activities in my classroom. I have such a wide range of learning abilties in my room so small groups are very helpful. As far as music goes, I haven't used but one lesson where music was involved. Many of my students love rap music so I had them create a rap in one of my poetry units. The rap had to have certain figurative language examples within the lyrics. I also read aloud to them quite often. I use a lot of theatrics with my voice to make the story more interesting which in turns keeps my students' attention. My final area, self, is something that is important to me. I cherish the moments that I get to be by myself. With two young children and husband that works shift work, these moments are few and far between. In these moments I like to work puzzles, read, or surf the internet. When it comes to my classroom, I use a lot of books on tape and a reading software program for independent learning. I teach a scholastic reading program called Read 180 and the program provides these materials for me.
The one technology activity that I loved after looking at it was the one called My Fakewall. The original Facebook program is so popular among kids that I know they would be highly interested in doing something like this. This is a great one for the learner who is interpersonal. Here they can create conversation between characters of a book and it would be a great group project. Music can also be attached to this assignment. As far as the intraperson area, the blogging part fits right in. The language area is seen through the writing and reading of the characters comments just like the spacial area is consumed through drawing of characters. I am not sure how math-logic or body-kinethetic areas can be applied. If anyone has a thought on that, please let me know.
I see that you have social as one of your top intelligences. I think that most teachers have social as one of their top intelligences because we are in such a social profession.
ReplyDeleteI checked out the My Fakewall site. Thanks for sharing. I really liked it. I will share it with the upper grade teachers. I don't know how well my little second graders would do with the site. But I see 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students really enjoying it!
I too had social as one of my top intelligence. I believe that you have to have this quality to be an educator. I will try and us the Fakewall website in my classroom
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