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Multiple Intelligences Action Research
Method
American
schools have traditionally favored those students who excel in the
linguistic and analytical arenas because these skills are highly valued
in our culture. Unfortunately, this traditional approach leaves certain
students behind to stumble blindly through an educational system that
ignores their unique abilities. This action research study seeks to
show that instructional activities that incorporate the multiple
intelligences can improve students' attitudes toward learning and
students' academic achievement in English class.
by Michele R. Acosta
Multiple
Intelligences Based Instruction: Part 5
During the six week
unit, the researcher employed the following
multiple intelligences activities designed to improve students'
attitudes and academic achievement...
While reading and
discussing The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald,
groups of three or four students were assigned a chapter from the
novel. They were asked to select a passage or a series of passages that
they would "act out." (See Appendix
M for the assignment.)
Students
were asked to select passages that they liked and which were important
to the development of the chapter and the novel. They were also
required to plan and present a rationale in which they explained the
reason they selected their passage(s) and the importance of the passage
to the novel. They were also asked to consider foreshadowing,
symbolism, and characterization when planning their rationales.
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Students were given
time in class to collaborate. They used their
intrapersonal, verbal-linguistic, and logical-mathematical
intelligences in scene selection, their interpersonal and
logical-mathematical intelligences in planning and organizing their
scene, their interpersonal, verbal-linguistic, and bodily-kinesthetic
intelligences to act out the scene, and they used their
logical-mathematical and verbal-linguistic intelligences to organize
and present their rationales at the end of the scene.
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