My first thought is that their names fit perfectly with my unit topic--plant growth and development. These thoughts led me to think about the lovely flowers a parent brought to me this morning. (Isn't it amazing how parents can either make your day or break it? I had another parent bring me a three shot espresso coffee thing that just about made me submit to convulsions by lunchtime. It was an interesting day for sure.) Below is just a list of other thoughts actually related to this assignment. As I was thinking about how to use Gardner’s work and Bloom’s work together these are some of the stream of consciousness ideas I came up with. Some represent instructional benefits; some are simply possible positive outcomes of their interaction.
- Tier activities to both students strengths and weaknesses depending on what skills and knowledge you want to foster with the activities
- Identify students gifts in more than traditional academic areas
- Activities can be designed to help students think at a higher level within their comfort zones or outside of their comfort zones.
- Integrating the two challenges their creativity
- The teacher can more easily see which verbs fit with which kids by approaching them within the different intelligences and therefore help the students make connections and build their strengths in multiple intelligence areas
- Seeing the overlap in verbs helps teachers design questions during different lessons across the curriculum so that students can make connections between curriculum areas and different intelligences
- Usually silent students can be brought into discussions by using questions that suit their intelligences but still require them to think at a higher level
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Ah yes, how a parent can change your entire day ... in only a five minute visit :)
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