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How Do We Tap Into an Individual Child’s Intelligence?

 

http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-research

Practices Supported by Research….. A short excerpt:

“Having an understanding of different teaching approaches from which we all can learn, as well as a toolbox with a variety of ways to present content to students, is valuable for increasing the accessibility of learning experiences for all students. To develop this toolbox, it is especially important to gather ongoing information about student strengths and challenges, as well as their developing interests and activities they dislike. Providing different contexts for students and engaging a variety of their senses — for example, learning about fractions through musical notes, flower petals, and poetic meter — is supported by research. Specifically:

  • Providing students with multiple ways to access content improves learning (Hattie, 2011).
  • Providing students with multiple ways to demonstrate knowledge and skills increases engagement and learning, and provides teachers with more accurate understanding of students’ knowledge and skills (Darling-Hammond, 2010).
  • Instruction should be informed as much as possible by detailed knowledge about students’ specific strengths, needs, and areas for growth (Tomlinson, 2014).”

 

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Nurturing Metacognition in Kindergarten

https://kindergartenlife.wordpress.com/2015/03/29/a-culture-of-learning-connecting/#comments

A great example of nurturing “metacognition” in kindergarten

“As an educator I am always trying to weave big ideas we have explored into the work, the choices my students make. Just by doing this I begin to help my students explore and also think about the what and how they came up with when they are creating their own representations of their learning…..”

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