1. Teaching Styles
We should spend less time ranking children and
more time helping them to identify their
natural competencies and gifts and cultivate
these. There are hundreds and hundreds of
ways to succeed and many, many different
abilities that will help you get there.
Howard Gardner
2. Purpose Statement
In the last PowerPoint, we learned about various
intelligences and the qualities and professions that best
suited each.
In this PowerPoint we are going to learn about different
activities and ways to accommodate the various
intelligences in a lesson plan.
Some of this information overlaps with the previous
PowerPoint, but the discussion board posts and
assignments that follow them are different.
3. Bodily-Kinesthetic
Best Ways to be Taught
Physical activity
Hands-on learning
Acting out/role playing
Tools to Use
Equipment (sports)
Legos/Blocks
Any props used for hands
on learning
4. Interpersonal
Best Ways to be Taught
Group activities
Seminars
Dialogues
Tools to Use
Telephone/Email
Audio conferencing
Time and attention from
the instructor
Video conferencing
Writing
5. Intrapersonal
Best Ways to be Taught
Independent study
Introspection
Tools to Use
Books
Creative materials
Diaries
Privacy
Time
7. Musical
Best Ways to be Taught
They may study better
with music in the
background
Turning lessons into
lyrics/song
Using rhyme to memorize
important things
Tools to Use
Musical instruments
Music (radio/stereo)
8. Naturalistic
Best Ways to be Taught
Reading/learning about
environmental issues
Turn classroom into a
nature lab complete with
plants and animals
Learn outdoors every now
and then to mix things up
Tools to Use
The outdoors
Leaves/animals
9. Verbal-Linguistic
Best Ways to be Taught
Write in a variety of
genres
Have students give
speeches
Read/tell stories
Tools to Use
Create/use word games
Crossword puzzles
Word searches
Books
10. Visual-Spatial
Best Ways to be Taught
Drawings
Verbal and physical
imagery
Tools to Use
Models/Graphics
Charts
Photographs/Drawings
Videos
11. End
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