Tuesday 19th July: Expository writing

Yesterday we took an assessment to test our intelligence. You can take it if you click here: test your type of intelligence

In a class we have several types of students, with different interests and level of knowledge, but also with different styles of learning. Every student can do anything, but why some students excel in some areas and are less achievers in others?

Until know, the educational system has boosted the linguistic and the logical/mathematical intelligence, but how we could help our students to achieve the objectives of the course? The answer is taking advantage of their strong points and trying to improve the weaker ones. For this reason, we as teachers must create a range of activities as large as we could in order to let our students learn using all their capabilities. After taking this assessment, students can realized that they are unique, no less intelligent than that classmate sitting next that usually have better marks.

How can you as a teacher improve this intelligences? Writing a report of the lab they do, is a good way to develop the ability to use the language to express their thoughts. The logical-mathematical intelligence is useful to analyze problems logically and solve them. For those students who have a special skill in the composition or appreciation of music, you can ask them to create a composition based on a topic you have explain in class, or give them the chance to do an oral presentation through the music. The students with a bodily-kinesthetic intelligence can use their facility to coordinate movements to make demonstrations to others or lead them in a physical challenge like building a project. Those who are specially good at the recognition of the space, can be selected to lead the group during a visit. The ones who has a great interpersonal intelligence can lead groups of work, because they have the capacity of understand other people. The students with a naturalistic intelligence and are more in tune with nature are highly aware of the changes to their environment, so they are good investigating the natural phenomena.