Attachment:
What Do You Know About Multiple
Intelligences
FCS FLASH ISSUE Number 91:
October 14, 2008
October 25: Monterey: Costume
Society of America
Distressed Costumes Workshop
October 25: Redwood City: Canada
College Fashion
Open House & Designer Sale
November 1 - April 5: San
Francisco:
Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit
November 5 - 8: Chicago, IL:
ITAA Annual Meeting: Evolving
Patterns
November 9 - Dec 5: Throughout
California:
CCCECE Fall Regional Meetings
& other important dates
November 13: Downey:
Explore the World of Organic
Foods
November 21 - 25: National
Harbor, MD:
Gerontological Society of
America Annual Conference
December 4 - 6: Charlotte, NC:
ACTE Convention & Career Expo
March 15 - 19: Las Vegas: Joint
Conference
National Council on
Aging/American Society on Aging
March 26 - 28: Sacramento:
CAEYC Conference California
Association for the Education of
Young Children
September 25 & 26: Sacramento:
CSA Western Region, 2009
Symposium “Costume in the
American West”
Call For Papers
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Get It Right, Use Your FCS Site!
Check out a new job listing:
Saddleback Community College is
seeking an
Assistant Manager for their
Child Development Center.
For a closer look at how
California funds Child
Development programs, link to “
If it Ain’t Broke, Then Why Are
We...?” by Alan Guttman.
Then read Melanie Horn Mallers’
compelling article on
Empathy. She offers plenty
of solid research as well as
ideas on how to be a more
compassionate communicator.
Finally, be sure to send your
new events, job openings, and
interesting articles to
jdriggers@mtsac.edu, and
we’ll get the word out.
FCS Activity: Brains are Wired
Differently
People are smart in different
ways. John Medina, in Brain
Rules , contends that
every brain is wired differently, with limitless
configurations. Howard Gardner’s
Multiple Intelligence Theory
speculates that people possess
eight different kinds of
intelligences. While Medina’s 7
billion wiring configurations
are too many to address,
Gardner’s multiple intelligences
provides an easier way to get
our arms around different kinds
of smarts. Exposing students and
helping them
identify how they are smart
will give them insight into how
they learn and what careers are
most suitable.
Try this:
Introduce
students to the Theory of
Multiple Intelligences by
showing
this 2-minute video.
Distribute the
attached quiz on What Do You
Know about Multiple
Intelligences ?
Allow students a few minutes to
answer the questions, then
review the
answers:
1. Bodily-kinesthetic; 2.
Naturalist; 3. Spatial; 4.
Logical-mathematical; 5.
Inter-personal intelligence; 6.
Musical intelligence; 7.
Intra-personal intelligence; and
8. Linguistic intelligence.
Draw an MI grid
on the board and ask students
how they think they are smart.
Put responses in the grid.
What are the predominant
intelligences in your class?
Ask how
students could use this
information. If they want to do
their own assessment,
suggest they download
this
one.
FYI: We have
a great number of ways of being
intelligent, many of which don’t
show up on IQ tests. John
Medina, author of
Brain Rules
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Consumer Science Collaborative
Grant (#06-0160).
Please contact Joann Driggers (
jdriggers@mtsac.edu ) with
any questions.
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