Learning how to be a teacher is hard, but is interesting. As a teacher, I have so many students who have different level of thinking, different intelligences, and different types of learning. Those things guide me to act and think creatively in delivering my lessons. “Multiple Intelligences” (MI) and “Bloom’s Taxonomy” (BT) is two ways that can solve those things - different level of thinking, different intelligences, and different types of learning. Then, another “question” is how to create and implement MI and BT in my lesson? As we know, BT means “challenging tasks,” so the activities are ordered from the easiest until the hardest. Meanwhile, MI means "various tasks", so we have to provide so many tasks for students based on eight-kinds of MI.
Last week, I learned how to create some activities using BT for learning. My partner and I chose the topic about “colour,” then we create some activities which could be done in one day teaching, I mean the activities could be finished in once meeting. We started from remembering the colours by singing a song, watching a video, differentiating primary and secondary colours, and then we finished by creating and evaluating about the mixed-colours, so the activities are ordered increasingly.
After re-thinking about the MI activities that were made by my friends, most of them made MI became project. It’s like make a drama, my friends divided some tasks for each students who have different intelligences. For example, for the musical-person their task is making a song, for logical-person their task is budgeting, for visual-person their task is arranging the places, something like that. Most of my friends made MI like that. My mind wonders “does MI always like that?” I mean can MI be used in once meeting?
Annas’ group made activities for once meeting; a program for separating garbage. Actually, it’s great, but they set the program for “visual-auditory-kinaesthetic learners.” My question is “is MI same with visual-auditory-kinaesthetic learners?” I think they are different because MI consists of 8 types of intelligences, meanwhile visual-auditory-kinaesthetic is the kinds of learning-style. So guys, what do you think of this? Do you wanna share your ideas with me? 
Mul said,
ReplyDeleteYaa Mamed I agree with u that MI is different with visual, auditory or kin esthetic because that are kind of MI.
I think it's different because the students that have style kinaesthetic in learning maybe did not need visual in learning. he or she only need move when he was learning in the class, vise verse.
This method help us to teach the students if we want to make process learning appropriate with they style learning n from now this lesson make us to think creatively :)
Thanks Mul for sharing your idea, but I don't really agree with your statement "the students that have style kinaesthetic in learning maybe did not need visual in learning" because everyone may has not only one style. For example is myself, I'm kind of a visual and kinaesthetic too, hahha, however my visual is more dominate than my kinaesthetic.
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Yeah, I think visual-auditory and kinesthetics is some kind of multiple intellegence.
ReplyDeleteMay be, Mul mean's that there is a person that dominant in kinesthetics but low in visual.
Because I included that person.
I'm more dominant in kinesthetics than visual.
I think MI is a way, way to transfer knowledge so for example students who have auditory it doesn't means that we have to teach them or give them an assignments that related in music, we still can teach them mathematics like let them remember the formula by a song. So students still can learn math although they are auditory.
ReplyDeleteMay be it is difficult to make activities for one meeting which include 9 kinds of multiple intelligences but it doesn't mean it can't. Like Rina says MI isn't only about how you assess them in various intelligences, it can be how you can teach them. Visual,auditory and kinesthetic is the way students learn, visual is related to spatial intelligence, auditory can related with musical intelligence, and kinesthetic related to bodily kinesthetic intelligence, but how about 5 others? if we give them post test individually I think it represent to intrapersonal intelligence and if we add group activities it can represent interpersonal intelligence, and so on..
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