Sunday, March 10, 2013

WEEK - 9, The week before the last week



MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE

This week has started with the reading materials on the concept of multiple intelligence and learning style. I have actually been familiar with multiple intelligence myself, but reading the material on the course web has broadened my understanding further on the area. It is a scientific fact that intelligence exists in several forms and proportions in every one of us. According to studies made by Howard Gardener approves that individuals who have an injury with the part of the brain that controls for a specific intelligence trait  still are capable enough to manifest another intelligence trait they manipulate very well. It is also true that the proportions that each of the intelligence traits exist vary greatly. People are endowed with more trait of one form than the others. Hence, up on exploitation of such intelligence simply means the realization of  making a difference in this world. Several noted individuals can be mentioned to this respect. For instance, Albert Einestine, Mozart, Picaso Usian Bolt....etc. A school is an area where students gather and discover a skill they are best at. It is for such reason usually new skillful individuals emerge from, new discoveries made and new ideas blossom. Therefore, the teacher’s job inside the school should be to identify the different intelligences in his students and encourage the student to take every step at promoting the skill s/he is intelligent for.
                                                             
                                       Howard Gardener

Another important accomplishment of this week is the posting of our final draft on the project we have been working on since the beginning of the course. This actually must have created the feeling that we are almost done with the course. It actually has created a mixed feeling within myself. I am happy that the course has been quite an inspirational and has made me to actually manage implementing some technology to promote learning in my class, and I have posted my overall work on that in the form of a final project report following the rubric for that purpose on our course website. Equally to that, I also felt sad that such very inspiring course is terminating in about a week of time. 
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                        
As a conclusion, although we had not very much to do this week, but the habit the course has instilled in me kept me busy over the web searching materials and sites useful to my teaching process. Surely one can tell from such habit I have possessed how much I have already benefited from the course.
                                               
                                                                                                   
                                                                            
                                    

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