The readings and videos this week were super exciting and taught me a lot about how we can better engage our students.
I am super excited to see what this week holds as I am also pursuing a special education minor and think that this week will be incredibly useful for both my agricultural education profession as well as the special education population that I will also be working with.
How does the uniqueness of our learners impact lesson planning?
Our students have 8 different intelligences that they can associate themselves with; these include: visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, musical-rhythmic, naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and logical-mathematical. By learning what intelligence our learners associate with, we are able to build our lesson plans around our specific learners wants and needs. I think that I could incorporate this into my classroom by having students take the quiz anonymously in order to better prepare lessons that appeal to all of our learners and incorporate variability into our lessons.
I also thought that it was interesting that Angela Maiers described keeping a journal about things that she noticed the students were doing throughout the class. I think this is a unique tool to use to show students that we care about their actions and even if we are not verbally expression their actions, we are noticing them enough to write them down. (I personally struggle with this and would love to have a mentor keep a notebook and share it with me; the littlest things sometimes mean the most- no matter the age).
How does "e-moments, multiple intelligences, domains and modalities impact instructional design?
This week, we read about e-moments, multiple intelligences, domains and modalities.
"E-moments" or "engaging moments" are ways that we, as teachers, are able to enhance the way our students connect with the content that we are teaching. There are also 8 different intelligences that are students are able to identify with which include, as listed above: visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, interpersonal, musical-rhythmic, naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and logical-mathematical. The domains of learning include cognitive, affective, and psychomotor- these domains are associated with Bloom's taxonomy and how we should be structuring our instructional design so that students are not just stuck at the remember stage and are able to reach the create/evaluate stage. The three modalities that were discussed within the readings include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. All of these (e-moments, multiple intelligences, domains, and modalities) work together to promote higher order thinking and allowing students to better connect with the content we are teaching.
By understanding each of these concepts and how they are connected to not only one another but also to our students, we will be able to assess and plan accordingly. While creating instructional design, we need to take each of these into consideration in regards to how our students are learning and what aspects they want to learn and how they are willing to learn and connect.
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Kayla, I like your idea of having your students take the quiz so that you have a record of their intelligence types. This could be a useful tool in creating diverse groups for projects, or to help plan lessons that engage all of the different types. Journaling is also an excellent way to help keep track of students' strengths and weaknesses in terms of modalities, domains, and intelligences, and can assist you in incorporating them into your classroom learning activities.
ReplyDeleteKayla, the uniqueness and individuality of students is something so special yet so challenging to the teaching profession. You will have classes of every level/every type of learner and providing instruction that reaches each can be quite perplexing. My simple advice to you is to utilize two principles, 1.) Teamwork allows/forces everyone to contribute something, hopefully utilizing their areas of strength/expertise/interest. 2.) Real-world scenarios provide very diverse experiences that can engage the theoretical thinkers as well as the more practical thinkers. Think about real-life, it throws both types of situations out there all the time. Keep doing great things.
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