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Having worked as a teacher for a number of years in a school committed to 'making its best better', it became plain to me that the English education system was far too geared around teaching rather than learning. Complaints about the lack of independent study skills students possess by the time they come to Sixth form, innovations with curriculum models, a backlash against a content driven National Curriculum, a greater understanding of the non-sequential pattern of learning, TLF and a shift in OfSTED observation from 'Response' to 'Learning', all helped drive this movement too. One of the first problems was knowing which model(s) to buy into. I chose to start with Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences' and worked on identifying and supporting them with Years 7 and 12 at my school.
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Howard Gardner's
8 Multiple Intelligences
VISUAL/SPATIAL - learn best visually, organise things spatially. Enjoy charts, graphs, maps, tables, illustrations, art, puzzles, costumes etc.
VERBAL/LINGUISTIC - learn best through words: reading, writing, speaking, listening. Enjoy many of the traditional teaching methods.
MATEHMATICAL/LOGICAL - learn best through numbers, reasoning and problem solving. Also do well with traditional methods.
BODILY/KINESTHETIC - learn best through activity: games, movement, hands-on tasks, building. Often told off in traditional classrooms!
MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC - learn best through songs, patterns, rhythms, instruments, musical expression. Often over-looked.
INTRAPERSONAL - learn best through working alone, with their own feelings. Can be reserved but are actually intuitive about how they learn and how learning relates to them.
INTERPERSONAL - learn best through people oriented actvities: groups, partners etc. Often seen as too talkative.
NATURALIST - learn best by relating the learning to the outside world. Pick up on subtle meanings. Out of place in the traditional classroom.
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