Engaging mind and senses.
Different children learn differently. In the Band Basics classroom, activities are devised to engage the senses and the mind. Renowned psychologist Howard Gardner suggests effective learning takes place when teachers instruct in a variety of ways, thus providing rich and meaningful opportunities for instruction and concept development in each of the intelligences.
Everyone - children and adults - have at least one intelligence that is the strongest, and I believe teaching to those strengths, whilst enhancing weaker intelligences can help students to be more successful.
The eight multiple intelligences include the following:
Verbal/linguistic
Math/logical
Spatial
Musical
Body/motion/kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Naturalistic
Interestingly, musical intelligence is one of the multiple intelligences, but, in our Band Basics class, all intelligences are valued because children learn, represent, and use knowledge in many different ways it makes good sense to incorporate that into the Band Basics classroom too.
Why not answer a few questions, and (within a few days), find out your MI strengths??
Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist and s Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.