Week 9: Multiple Intelligences

In the last decade we have been dealing with multiple intelligences stated by Gardner, since then the view of education has changed dramatically. Nobody knew that every human being has a different way of acquiring knowledge, this fact made teachers change the whole view of how to teach.

We know now that in a single classroom you find different ways of learning of the students, we know that there are students that always get the best scores in some subjects, but the same students can get low scores in other subjects.

We have the chance to create different tasks or assignments according to the characteristics of each student, but for knowing what task to send the students, we must know each one of them and their personal environment and characteristic, we have to the sign different tasks for a single theme, so meanwhile some students of developing interactive power point, others could be developing a video or something, just for telling an example.

It is a mistake to believe the we can reach a desired goal sending the same project to the whole class, so we must be aware of the students` characteristics and the intelligence or intelligences he/she could have.