Final Exam Flashcards
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences (9)
Natural Physical Reflective Visual Verbal Relational Musical Logical Existential
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Natural Learners
- Can identify elements in nature well
- May relate well to creation stories
- Likes to explore the natural world
- Seeks the beauty in God’s creation
- The Psalms of David are good examples
Pazmino’s definition of curriculum
“Curriculum can be defined as that content made available to students and their actual learning experiences guided by a teacher.”
The Principles for the use of teaching methods (7)
- MATCH methods and activities to the objective statements.
- Use activities that focus on HIGHER levels of learning.
- Use learning activities that support AFFECTIVE objectives.
- Provide for VARIETY in your methods.
- Focus on the LEARNER learning, not the teacher teaching.
- Give attention to the DETERMINERS of methods and activities.
- Base methods on sound PRINCIPLES from educational theory and psychology.
The percentages from Dale’s Cone of Experience (People generally remember…)
10% of what they read 20% of what they hear 30% of what they see 50% of what they see and hear 70% of what they say and write 90% of what they do
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development (4)
Sensorimotor
Preoperational
Concrete Operational
Formal Operational
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Physical Learners
-Active people
-Often well coordinated
-Like to act out stories they hear
-Like mission projects, sports, drama activities
-In the Bible, we see Ezekiel as a very dramatic prophet who acted out, under the Lord’s command, many of his prophecies
(Learn by doing)
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Reflective Learners
-Understand who they are and how they feel
-May prefer to work alone
-Seek ways of self-expression
-Comfortable with solitude
(May appear to be shy or introverted)
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Visual Learners
- See with their imaginations and see in concrete ways
- Understand space and distance concepts easily
- Relate well with visuals, objects, representations of reality
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Verbal Learners
- Enjoy giving speeches and debates as well as stories, poems, and essays
- Learn best through the use of words (reading, writing, listening)
- May have large vocabularies
- Want to talk!!!
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Relational Learners
-Highly social
-Make friends easily and may be good talkers
-Recognize how people feel
-Drawn to activities that involve others
(Opposite of reflective learners)
(Body language is very important)
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Musical Learners
- Often good listeners
- More sensitive to rhythm and pitch
- Like to sing and listen to music, and may move when listening
- Like to write songs and music
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Existential Learners (added later)
- Gardner hesitated to formalize this as an intelligence and was vague in his descriptions…
- Considered spiritual or even mystical
- Head in the clouds
- Can see the big picture and ponder life’s big questions and may even see the connections between very abstract concepts.
Garner’s Multiple Intelligences: Logical Learners
-Like to solve problems
-See patterns in the world and can reason through problems
-Rely heavily on analogies
-Like working with abstractions
-Like puzzles and games
(“classic” intelligence)
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Sensorimotor
Sensorimotor (0-2 years old)
- Thinking is limited to immediate experience
- Pretending, miming
- Memory
- Simple reflex to goal-directed behavior.
