The other day, I was reading a very interesting book; "So Each May Learn - Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences," and I found the book rather intriguing because it discussed how to teach children from many different angles, therefore leaving no one behind since every child thinks slightly differently, and by applying to their various differences in types of intelligence, well, it is more apropos to getting them to learn. That makes sense doesn't it? However, I'd like to take this one step further, perhaps take the focus off the students, and consider what it means for the teachers.
You see, since there are different types of intelligences as per Howard Gardner's famous "Multiple Intelligences Theory" we also know that teachers are humans, and therefore will possess a wide variety of different types of intelligences. One teacher may be very good at music, another at math, another at English and literature, and perhaps another at painting, psychology, or an excellent athlete. However, their students may not match with their style of thinking, learning, or intelligence. In this case they are bound to leave some students behind who just don't get it.
The students may very well understand the subject better if someone else were teaching with their type of intelligence. Just because a teacher teaches math doesn't mean they have a decent logical or mathematical level of intelligence as they may have an intuitive type of intelligence and therefore, they teach from a different perspective. Do you see that point? If a teacher is trying to integrate different styles of learning and intelligences, they must also know where they stand themselves, and they have to be careful because they will excel in that type of intelligence and it will be difficult for the students to keep up or even understand.
The teacher might assume that some of their students are simply stupid, or lack the skills or ability to learn the particular subject they are teaching. Not everything comes easy to everyone, and some of these students might be better than the teacher at other skills. It seems quite important for teachers to know where they stand, and perhaps we should categorize these teachers and give them the same types of tests as all the students.
They may not even be suited for teaching, and the worst thing we can do is give them tenure or protection by way of their teachers union if they are not pulling their weight. If we are going to continue to teach students in classrooms the old-fashioned way, they we are going to have to get with the program and get into the 21st century. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Future of Education. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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You see, since there are different types of intelligences as per Howard Gardner's famous "Multiple Intelligences Theory" we also know that teachers are humans, and therefore will possess a wide variety of different types of intelligences. One teacher may be very good at music, another at math, another at English and literature, and perhaps another at painting, psychology, or an excellent athlete. However, their students may not match with their style of thinking, learning, or intelligence. In this case they are bound to leave some students behind who just don't get it.
The students may very well understand the subject better if someone else were teaching with their type of intelligence. Just because a teacher teaches math doesn't mean they have a decent logical or mathematical level of intelligence as they may have an intuitive type of intelligence and therefore, they teach from a different perspective. Do you see that point? If a teacher is trying to integrate different styles of learning and intelligences, they must also know where they stand themselves, and they have to be careful because they will excel in that type of intelligence and it will be difficult for the students to keep up or even understand.
The teacher might assume that some of their students are simply stupid, or lack the skills or ability to learn the particular subject they are teaching. Not everything comes easy to everyone, and some of these students might be better than the teacher at other skills. It seems quite important for teachers to know where they stand, and perhaps we should categorize these teachers and give them the same types of tests as all the students.
They may not even be suited for teaching, and the worst thing we can do is give them tenure or protection by way of their teachers union if they are not pulling their weight. If we are going to continue to teach students in classrooms the old-fashioned way, they we are going to have to get with the program and get into the 21st century. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on the Future of Education. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7291951