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What multiple intelligence learning styles are used during wait time?

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Wait Time uses Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

Wait time is a teaching strategy that helps encourage those who don’t raise their hand often to start participating in class. The teacher asks a question and then waits 10 seconds to call on someone. It allows students to have enough time to process the question and come up with an answer. If the teacher waits before calling on a student, more students raise their hands and more students use their critical thinking skills. If students are depending on themselves more to come up with an answer to the question, their intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning stylewill be used and possibly even be strengthened. They can learn to trust themselves.

Some might wonder why this is a needed teaching strategy. Many times teachers ask a question and the student that raises their hand first is the one that is called on. So that means that the students that take longer to process the question and come up with the answer never get to go through the critical thinking process or exercise their logical multiple intelligence learning style. Those who need to work up the confidence to participate are also silenced. Some students, knowing that they won’t be called on, will just tune out and be lost.

I learned this teaching strategy in a professional development course called Effective Teaching. Wait time uses the intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style as well as the logical multiple intelligence learning style. Depending on the question, other multiple intelligence learning styles might be used also. This teaching strategy is great to use during mini-lessons and checking for understanding of the content.

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What multiple intelligence learning styles work together during a board game activity?

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Board Games use Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

If your goal is to have your students play a board game, you can bring in all of the multiple intelligence learning styles by creating questions or tasks for students to do at each space or with question or task cards. This can be time consuming to create. Board games are usually played with others so this uses the interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style.

If your goal is to have students create their own board game it will most likely end up being a question and answer game. The organization of content and organization of the game i.e. creation of rules, all use logic. That means that the logical multiple intelligence learning style is used. The spatial multiple intelligence learning style will be used when the actual board is created. Teachers can give students the choice to work individually (intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style) or with a partner or group (interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style).

Teachers can differentiate instruction by offering their students more activities that use other multiple intelligence learning styles activities that use the same content.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kasha-Mastrodomenico/Category/Activity-Templates-and-Rubrics offers many multiple intelligence learning style activity templates like the board game above with the rubrics for grading. Check it out! You can also get advice from Kasha Mastrodomenico by connecting with her on Linkedin.com.

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What multiple intelligence learning styles work together in a eulogy activity?

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Eulogy Activities use Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

 

Multiple intelligence learning styles work together during activities. When students create a eulogy they use the following:

  • Linguistic multiple intelligence learning style
  • Intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style
  • Interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style

In order to create a eulogy, language must be used. Thus, the linguistic multiple intelligence learning style is used. Writing a eulogy can be a nice alternative to expository writing. Students will still be able to use content but in a creative way. Writing eulogies for historical figures can help personalize them for the student. Teachers can allow students to choose between interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style(working with others) or intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style (working by themselves). I do not recommend creating a eulogy as a group activity, partners are a good choice for the interpersonal learner. I have noticed that a lot of relaxation occurs by many in a group while one or two create, even with student roles.

Teachers can differentiate instruction by offering students more choices of activities that use different multiple intelligence learning styles and focus on the same content.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kasha-Mastrodomenico/Category/Activity-Templates-and-Rubrics offers many activity templates like the eulogy activity above based on the multiple intelligence learning styles and they also include rubrics. Check it out! You can also get advice from Kasha Mastrodomenico via Linkedin.com by connecting with her.

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What multiple intelligence learning styles work together during expository writing?

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Expository Writing uses Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

 

Expository writing can use many multiple intelligence learning styles. Expository writing must be organized in paragraph form. The content itself must also be organized within the paragraphs. Due to the organization required for expository writing, the logical multiple intelligence learning style is used during the writing process. Obviously the use of language for writing is necessary. Therefore, the linguistic multiple intelligence learning style is used for expository writing. Teachers can give students a choice to work by themselves (intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style) or with a partner (interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style) to create their expository writing. Another popular choice to bring in the interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style is peer review.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kasha-Mastrodomenico offers a leveled expository writing system that takes a student from writing a topic sentence to as advanced as a DBQ essay. Check it out!

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What multiple intelligence learning styles work together in an obituary activity?

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Obituary Activities use Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

 

Multiple intelligence learning styles work together during activities. When students create an obituary they use the following:

  • Linguistic multiple intelligence learning style
  • Intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style
  • Interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style
  • Spatial multiple intelligence learning style

In order to create an obituary, language must be used. Thus, the linguistic multiple intelligence learning styleis used. Writing an obituary can be a nice alternative to expository writing. Students will still be able to use content but in a creative way. Writing obituaries for historical figures can help personalize them for the student. Teachers can allow students to choose between interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style(working with others) or intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style (working by themselves). I do not recommend creating an obituary as a group activity, partners are a good choice for the interpersonal learner. I have noticed that a lot of relaxation occurs by many in a group while one or two create, even with student roles. Photographs are often included in obituaries so teachers can assign the student to draw or find a picture of the person they are creating the obituary for. The visual photograph collected or picture drawn uses the spatial multiple intelligence learning style.

Teachers can differentiate instruction by offering students more choices of activities that use different multiple intelligence learning styles but focus on the same content.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kasha-Mastrodomenico/Category/Activity-Templates-and-Rubrics offers many activity templates like the obituary activity above based on the multiple intelligence learning styles and they also include rubrics. Check it out! You can also get advice from Kasha Mastrodomenico by connecting with her on Linkedin.com.

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What multiple intelligence learning styles work together in a song activity?

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Song Activities use Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

A great way to allow students to use different multiple intelligence learning styles is to assign them the creation of a song. You can have them create an original work but that can be quite time consuming. I suggest using the tune of a familiar tune like a nursery thyme and changing the words to fit the content.

The obvious multiple intelligence learning style that is used during a song activity is musical. The logical multiple intelligence learning style is used because the student or students will have to decipher what the important information of the content is before they create the content song. The linguistic multiple intelligence learning style is used because they must make words work with the tune almost poetically. Songs can be created either individually (intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style) or in a partnership or group (interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style).

Teachers can differentiate instruction by offering students more choices of classroom activities that use different multiple intelligence learning styles that focus on the same content.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kasha-Mastrodomenico/Category/Activity-Templates-and-Rubrics offers many multiple intelligence learning style activity templates like the song above along with the rubrics to grade them. Check it out!

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What multiple intelligence learning styles work together in a poetry activity?

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Poetry Activities use Multiple Intelligence Learning Styles

 

Multiple intelligence learning styles work together during activities. When students create poetry they use the following multiple intelligence learning styles:

  • Intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style
  • Interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style
  • Linguistic multiple intelligence learning style
  • Sometimes Musical multiple intelligence learning style

Poetry uses the linguistic multiple intelligence learning style because one needs to work with language. Poems that have rhythm when read are also using the musical multiple intelligence learning style. There are many types of poems that can be used to work with content as a classroom activity. I’ve noticed that rhyming poems are easier for students to remember and thus remember the content.

Second language learners seem to have a harder time writing rhyming poems probably due to a limited amount of vocabulary. I have given ELL students as well as certain SPED students rhyming dictionaries as an accommodation for a poetry classroom activity, which did seem to help some. Additional guidance by me, the teacher, was still necessary though.

Teachers can allow students to have a choice between working by themselves (intrapersonal multiple intelligence learning style) and working with a partner (interpersonal multiple intelligence learning style). I do not recommend creating poetry as a group activity. I have noticed that a lot of relaxation occurs by many in a group while one or two create the poem, even when student roles are given.

Teachers can differentiate instruction by offering students more choices of classroom activities that use different multiple intelligence learning styles but focus on the same content.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kasha-Mastrodomenico/Category/Activity-Templates-and-Rubrics offers many multiple intelligence learning style activity templates like the poem above along with the rubrics to grade them. Check it out!

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Kasha Mastrodomenico

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