Multiple Intelligences play an important role in Teacher Effectiveness.
Try these activities to enhance your own Multiple Intelligences.
Communication skills to enhance Verbal Intelligence
Read these pages http://effectivecommunicationadvice.com/effective-communication-for-teachers .
http://www.communicationskillsworld.com/communicationskillsforteachers.html
Activity: During the next practice teaching session, incorporate some of the tips you have got from these sites and list your experience.
Use Logical Intelligence wisely
(1) PLANNING A LESSON: Lesson planning is definitely an important skill for a teacher. Planning needs logical intelligence. To learn more about lesson planning, go to http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/p2_5.
(2) CONCEPT MAPS: You can use concepts maps when you summarise what you have learned. Use them to develop a Blackboard summary in the Classroom. Use them to plan a lesson or an activity. Check these links
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/students/research_resources/conceptmap.html
(3) Read http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_maps/
Use MS Word to create a concept map. check http://www.ehow.com/how_4927645_make-concept-map-microsoft-word.html
Activity: Generate a concept map for a blackboard summary of a lesson you are to teach or for any topic from any subject you are learning.
Enhance your Musical Intelligence:
Everyone likes music and using music in class is surely going to make your classes more lively and interesting. But the question is How do I incorporate musical intelligence in the classroom? Try composing little rhymes to give the gist of your lesson. Here are a few examples. Watch them and try composing your own .
For the topic photosynthesis:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s8x1KLMzL0
Polygon:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAka-K_q7CA
Blood:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3HDrifRENE&list=UUqrlSbtXw8TJtSGCDUBLYSg&index=10
Prepositions:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUC8XJ30oqI
Plenty of songs available on http://kidsinglish.com/
Can you compose a nice song for your lesson and send it over so that I can upload it here, with your name as contributor?
Read this book : The New Learning Revolution
how about this site for Geography? BBC News Globe
Science Teachers can download books from Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
(1) PLANNING A LESSON: Lesson planning is definitely an important skill for a teacher. Planning needs logical intelligence. To learn more about lesson planning, go to http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/p2_5.
(2) CONCEPT MAPS: You can use concepts maps when you summarise what you have learned. Use them to develop a Blackboard summary in the Classroom. Use them to plan a lesson or an activity. Check these links
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/students/research_resources/conceptmap.html
(3) Read http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/concept_maps/
Use MS Word to create a concept map. check http://www.ehow.com/how_4927645_make-concept-map-microsoft-word.html
Activity: Generate a concept map for a blackboard summary of a lesson you are to teach or for any topic from any subject you are learning.
Enhance your Musical Intelligence:
Everyone likes music and using music in class is surely going to make your classes more lively and interesting. But the question is How do I incorporate musical intelligence in the classroom? Try composing little rhymes to give the gist of your lesson. Here are a few examples. Watch them and try composing your own .
For the topic photosynthesis:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s8x1KLMzL0
Polygon:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAka-K_q7CA
Blood:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3HDrifRENE&list=UUqrlSbtXw8TJtSGCDUBLYSg&index=10
Prepositions:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUC8XJ30oqI
Plenty of songs available on http://kidsinglish.com/
Can you compose a nice song for your lesson and send it over so that I can upload it here, with your name as contributor?
Read this book : The New Learning Revolution
how about this site for Geography? BBC News Globe
Science Teachers can download books from Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education