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Title: Practical Activities To Stimulate Multiple Intelligences with Tracey Sinclair


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Practical Activities To Stimulate Multiple
Intelligenceswith Tracey Sinclair
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Different Learning Styles
  • If we cater to only one learning style, students
    who dont learn best this way will fall behind
    and will not progress.
  • If we cater for as many learning styles as
    possible, we will reach all our students and they
    will become successful language learners.
  • HOWARD GARDNER
  • There are 9 different types of intelligence.

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THE 9 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
  • Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence
  • A sensitivity to the meaning and order of words
  • Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
  • Ability in mathematics and other complex logical
    systems
  • Visual/Spatial Intelligence
  • The ability to think in pictures, to perceive the
    visual world accurately, and recreate (or alter)
    it in the mind or on paper
  • Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence
  • The ability to understand and create music
  • Bodily/Kinaesthetic Intelligence
  • The ability to use owns body in a skilled way,
    for self-expression or towards a goal.
  • Interpersonal Intelligence
  • An ability to perceive and understand other
    individuals their moods, desires and
    motivations.
  • Intrapersonal Intelligence
  • An understanding of ones own emotions
  • Naturalist Intelligence
  • An ability to categorise, classify and
    distinguish features of the environment.
  • Existential Intelligence
  • An understanding of the whole

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Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence
  • Discussions
  • Storytelling
  • Listening to tapes and talking books
  • Wordgames
  • - word searches
  • - acrostics

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Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence - examples
  • What words rhyme withcar?
  • Storytelling does the book have a storyline?
  • Write your name give me ONE word, related to you
    for each letter
  • Give me a word that sounds similar to Italian
    (same meaning)
  • Lets speak Italian with English accents
  • Im Tracey and I like..
  • Im Tracey and I can .

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Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
  • Logical Problems and puzzles
  • Calculations
  • Crosswords
  • Word or sentence ordering
  • Sequencing information

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Logical/Mathematical Intelligence - examples
  • Buzz
  • Dictations of calculations
  • Word or sentence ordering
  • 1-2-3-5-7-11-13-17-19-etc ???
  • 2-4-6-8-10-12-14-etc????

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Visual/Spatial Intelligence
  • Charts, maps, diagrams, graphic organisers
  • Videos, slides, films, DVDs, CD-ROMs
  • Flashcards
  • Art, painting, collage
  • Craft activities
  • Picture dictations
  • Games like Pelmans or Bingo

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Visual/Spatial Intelligence - examples
  • What are others wearing?
  • Who has blue eyes? Dont cheat!!
  • What can I make with the shadows and my body?
  • Picture dictations.lets do one!

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Musical/Rhythmical Intelligence
  • Listening to music
  • Playing musical instruments
  • Jazz chants
  • Raps
  • Songs
  • Background Music

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Musical/Rhythmical Intelligence - examples
  • 1, 2, 3
  • Look at me, Ive got 3 green teeth
  • What can you do with your hands?
  • Raps on a train
  • Tennis
  • Sounds made by?? Cat? Dog? Cow?

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Bodily/Kinaesthetic Intelligence
  • Movement
  • TPR
  • Brain Gym
  • 5-minute activities, warmers, coolers, something
    on a rainy day

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Bodily/Kinaesthetic Intelligence - examples
  • Instructions one by one, increase number
  • TPR
  • Brain Gym
  • Eat food miming activities
  • Whos the tallest? Oldest?

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Interpersonal Intelligence
  • Group brainstorming
  • Pair work
  • Questionaires, surveys and interviews
  • Team Games - Noughts and Crosses
  • Board games - Snakes and Ladders
  • - Dominoes

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Interpersonal Intelligence - examples
  • Brainstorm . Food, sports, TV programmes, etc
    (alphabetise them)
  • Find someone who.

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Intrapersonal Intelligence
  • Independent work
  • Individualised projects
  • Options for homework
  • Emotions and Feelings e.g. Christmas is. Summer
    is .. Hiakus, Poems
  • Diaries

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Intrapersonal Intelligence - examples
  • Write a sentence. Add one word each time, dictate
    last sentence
  • Write a haiku.
  • Write what you ate for lunch today. Yesterday,
    day before?

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Naturalist Intelligence
  • Categorising and classifying
  • Displays and collages using natural materials
  • Spot the difference
  • Odd one out
  • The natural world

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Naturalist Intelligence - examples
  • How many breeds of dog do you know?
  • What food comes from Italy?
  • OR
  • Where does Paella come from? Sushi? Give me
    another example..
  • Fill in the map with.

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Existential Intelligence
  • Teach science/maths/geography through English
  • Encourage self-learning (e.g.dictionaries)
  • Similarities amongst different cultures
  • Specialists in class to speak to SS
  • See things from different points of view

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Existential Intelligence - examples
  • Who knows what Christmas is in another language?
    And what happens in that country? Food?
    Activities?
  • Who can tell me (use a picture dictionary) 3
    objects on page X?
  • If I stand on a chair, what can I see that I
    cant see now?
  • What holidays do Italians celebrate that other
    cultures dont? (why, why not??)
  • See things from different points of view

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Checklist
  • Verbal Linguistic
  • How do I use the spoken or written word in the
    classroom?
  • Logical mathematical
  • How can I bring numbers and logical thinking into
    the classroom?
  • Visual/Spatial
  • How do I use visual aids?
  • Musical/Rhythmical
  • How can I bring in music?

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Checklist
  • Bodily/Kinaesthetic
  • How can I involve the whole body?
  • Interpersonal
  • Do I use pair and group work?
  • Intrapersonal
  • How do I evoke emotions and feelings?
  • Naturalist
  • How can I bring in observation and research?
  • Existential
  • Do I bring the whole picture into my questioning?

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Thought for the day
  • If the child is not learning
  • the way you are teaching,
  • then you must teach
  • in the way the child learns
  • - Rita Dunn

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Tracey Sinclair
  • Mob 335-6515538
  • Email t.sinclair_at_elionline.com
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