One of the many herculean tasks that a teacher has is the student's retention of the lesson. One of the tools against this evil is the brain's responses to the Multiple Intelligences. If a student is naturalist learner, they are more likely to retain knowledge by linking it to animal behavior rather than listening to a lecture, no matter how entertaining that lecture may be. If one can teach to the student's intelligences, they have a better chance of having the students retaining the lesson and working efficiently. By teaching to the intelligences, the teacher is allowing the student to further develop their dominant intelligences.
This chapter presented a very useful pointer in lesson retention. When the teacher can teach to the student's most frequently used intelligence, great things will happen. The student will develop their own intelligences and they will be learning the teacher's material (isn't that just awesome?). many of us thought that notion of memorization was rather wrong and absurd. Many of us also agreed with this chapter. Many of us seemed to think that this chapter gave us a powerful tool to use in the classroom.
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Interesting links! It is good to know how the brain works, in order to help my students stow information in their long term memory, rather than short term.
I really liked the first link that you had and it reminded me that students do need that pause in the day or in a class period to keep going. One of my students at MBHS would always go "St Onge, my brain is full aka its break time... can we go on our break now," because he would always give them a a break most of the way through the class so that they could step out recollect themselves and come back fresh!
I think this is a good thing to add in an agenda!
I have to say that your second link is interesting. It would be good to know how the brain works. Also If you hit the "next" button it goes on to say how the brain works for problem solving. This again important information for a teacher. However, some of the links on the very last page of this site are dead so maybe finding a site that is more updated would be more useful.
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