Both Gardner and Goleman challenge the ways in which we think about intelligence in our culture. Of the two theorists, with whom do you agree more? Base your answer on your own experiences
What will be an ideal response?
This question, if utilized as a springboard for class discussion, will likely engage students in a very interactive discussion. Looking from Gardner's perspective, students will have the opportunity to reflect on their own strengths, talents, and competencies. Stress for the students that Gardner (1983) believes that everyone possesses the seven intelligences (visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, musical/rhythm, logic/math, body/kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal—-he later added naturalistic for those people who are "environmentally intelligent"). Individuals have their "intelligences" more developed and honed in specific areas.
Provide the students an opportunity to self-evaluate. The goal of this question is to get students to recognize the strengths that exist within them. Perhaps they could rank order their intelligences from the most developed to the least developed and justify their answers based on experiences. This exercise will generate discussion around how these strengths and weaknesses might coincide with what they are being asked to do in their classes. Students can then brainstorm strategies to develop their under-developed intelligences.
Students will be interested to learn that from Goleman's point of view, people with a high IQ can sometimes flounder and that those with a modest IQ can be high achievers. After outlining some of the qualities that, according to Goleman, are possessed by those who accelerate in life
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a. experimental mortality b. reactive effect of testing c. statistical regression d. maturation e. instrumentation
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a. judgements about the person’s feelings. b. the concern that you may feel or show for a student. c. being sensitive to another individual’s changing feelings. d. both b and c
Mr. Petrov provided appropriate strategies to support the infusion of cultural awareness and diversity into his 3rd grade classroom by
A. correcting all non-standard English responses to catch problems early. B. incorporating stereotypical "boy" or "girl" stories. C. including multicultural literature that embraces children's similarities. D. using names from many countries in test questions.
Which type of support staff person typically only provided instructional support to classroom teachers, but is increasingly being employed to help with family outreach?
A. home–school coordinator B. school social worker C. instructional coach D. paraprofessional