Differentiated Instruction: Exploring Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

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Differentiated Instruction Exploring Multiple
Intelligences and Learning Styles
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Workshop Goals

• To review the Multiple Intelligences and Learning
  Styles.
• To self-assess personal learning styles.
• To brainstorm and create D.I. opportunities that
  employ various intelligences and learning styles.

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Differentiated Instruction

• Content
• Process
• Product

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D.I. Learning Styles

• Providing opportunities for students to use their
  personal intelligence or learning style is a D.I.
  strategy that modifies the process and product,
  not the content.

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Multiple Intelligences

• Linguistic intelligence ("word smart")
• Logical-mathematical intelligence
  ("number/reasoning smart")
• Visual-spatial intelligence ("picture smart")
• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart")
• Musical intelligence ("music smart")
• Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart")
• Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart")
• Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")
• Howard Gardner, 1983
• Which three do you feel speak to your personal
  strengths?

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What is Your Learning Strength?

• Take an on-line assessment to learn more about
  your personal learning style
• http//www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsiframe.htm
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• (Once linked to the site, please click Multiple
  Intelligences Assessment in the left navigational
  pane to take the questionnaire)

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A Point to Ponder

• Do you primarily teach to your learning
  strengths?
• If so, how might this impact the learners with
  different learning intelligences?
• What can you do to provide learning opportunities
  that employ different intelligences?

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Verbal - Linguistic Strategies

• Reading
• Vocabulary
• Formal and Informal Speech or Debate
• Journal Writing
• Creative Writing
• Poetry
• Humor and Jokes
• Storytelling
• Drama

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Logical Mathematical Strategies

• Abstract Symbols/ Formulas
• Outlining
• Graphic Organizers
• Number Sequences
• Deciphering Codes
• Syllogisms
• Problem Solving
• Pattern Discernment

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Visual - Spatial Strategies

• Guided Imagery
• Active Imagination
• Color Schemes
• Patterns/ Designs
• Painting
• Drawing
• Mind-Mapping
• Sculpture
• Visual Pictures
• Graphic Organizers

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Bodily Kinesthetic Strategies

• Dance
• Role Playing
• Physical Gestures
• Drama
• Martial Arts
• Sports and Games
• Mime
• Physical Exercise
• Body Language

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Musical-Rhythmic Strategies

• Rhythmic Patterns
• Vocal Sounds and Tones
• Percussion Vibrations
• Humming
• Singing and Rapping
• Musical Performance and Composition
• Instrumental Sounds

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Interpersonal Strategies

• Giving Feedback
• Intuiting Others Feelings
• Empathy Practices
• Division of Labor
• Person-to-Person Communication
• Cooperative Learning
• Collaborative Skills
• Peer Editing and Feedback

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Intrapersonal Strategies

• Silent Reflection Methods
• Thinking Strategies
• Metacognition Techniques
• Concentration Skills
• Complex Guided Imagery
• Centering Practices

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Naturalist

• Environmental Studies
• Ecological Studies
• Animal Studies
• Nature Walks and Hiking
• Botany and Agricultural Studies

Please Note This Multiple Intelligence was added
later by Howard Gardner and was not included in
his earlier editions of Frames of Mind.
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Application Opportunity

• Brainstorm ways in which you could use Multiple
  Intelligences in your classroom to teach a
  particular concept.
• The Learning Objective
• Two or more learning activities to help student
  achieve the objective using various intelligences

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Learning Styles

• Concrete Sequential
• Abstract Random
• Abstract Sequential
• Concrete Random
• Butler, Kathleen. Learning and Teaching Styles.
  The Learners Dimension Columbia, CT. 1984.

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Learning Styles

• Audio
• Visual
• Kinesthetic
• Tactile