Gardner multipe intelligences.

Gardner would like to know how the elements of multiple intelligence might be expressed in students in main courses like reading and language arts, biology, American history, art or music, and vocational and career. There is not just one way that a subject can be expressed, there is tons. Every student thinks different, which means they learn different, which means they understand different.

In reading and language arts, one can get taught by visuals, or what they see, which is the book they are reading, power points, etc. They can also be taught by musical like singing the ABC’s. Not everyone was good at writing the ABC’s down and memorizing them. Also in language arts, you can learn interpersonally, or interacting with others. For example, having a homework assignment to read a certain part of a book, and not understanding it, then having a class discussion the next day, and a peer explaining it. Students learn in so many different ways.

In biology, which in my opinion is one of the hardest to learn, because it involves math, vocabulary, formulas, etc. Visuals and powerpoints help the most for students to learn. Also watching it done in front of them, it will stick to their brain, or using peers for examples. Definitely use motion for biology. Printed words are also good for biology, so that flash cards can be made.

In history, it is all about what you see. There is no arithmetic or formulas you need to know, no information you need to know before hand. For example in math, before you can learn division and multiplication, you need to learn addition and subtraction. History, you just learn facts, or what was believed to be facts. To help the students learn history, you have to relate it to them and you need a lot of visuals. It is going to be hard teaching a student about living in the 1800’s riding a pony, now that they are driving their 2017 ford mustang to school everyday.

In art and music, students learn with sound, motion, color, interpersonal, intrapersonal, lots of ways. You cant just give a aspiring musician a slide show and expect them to learn, you need an experienced teacher, visuals, bodily kinesthetic, and much more. You do not have to like music to learn it. A lot of people get that wrong.

There are many ways that teachers can help their students in the learning environment. For example, in reading, you can make a study group and have the students all read the same page in the book and see what they don’t understand. If a big portion doesn’t understand the same thing, then you know what you have to teach better. Another good teaching method is watching movies. In a cinema class, we learned about different camera angles, there is about 20. The professor used to make a slideshow with all of the camera angles explained, but there were no images, then she would show movies with the camera angles that we learned about. In biology, trying to explain gravitational pull on the moon isn’t easy, or trying to explain a chemical reaction isn’t easy. So labs are a great way for students to react with what they are learning, and actually put it to use, and see it with their own eyes. In my history class in 6th grade, we were reading a book that took place in the late 1800s. We didn’t know how valuable 25 cents was until we had to go interview older people and see what 25 cents could buy them back in the day. Interaction is always good when it comes to learning. Also relating lessons to students lives are helpful, because it gives a special connection between a teacher and student to show them that the teacher is there for the student.

Howard Gardner had seven intelligences. Visual spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, linguistic, and logical mathematical. I believe every student has one of these mastered. For example they either like numbers, or they like art and drawing, or science things. I think that their genes define what they will be good at. Whether its numbers, colors, etc.