Paper Topic:

How is the Multiple Intelligence theory related to differentiated instruction?

Introduction

It is the experience of teachers around the world that every so often at least one student has amazed them with the way this learner were able to get to the bottom of a particular problem or demonstrated that he or she understood something . It may have been a child who solved a math problem correctly but differently from the way it was taught . For example , it may have been that an adolescent who played an operatic scene with from a play . Or perchance it was a withdrawn seventh grader that was

able to shock his /her classmates by becoming the most articulate voice in leading the group through a web of moral and social dilemmas and resolving a crisis over a case of unethical actions in the classroom

But there may be two reasons for this occurrence . First , there were things about these children their teachers did not know , things about the ways their minds worked (The students may not have known these things about themselves , either ) So their teachers did not anticipate that the students would solve a problem or express their ideas in a particular way . On the other hand a second reason would be possibly because teachers themselves may not have ever thought about the problem in that way

Our understanding to the varied ways in which children think , solve problems , and express themselves is often limited both by our notions of intelligence (for example , that it is something finite one is instinctive with ) and our own intellectual preferences . Deliberate or not , teachers model their educational mediums (curriculum , instruction and assessment ) to imitate their ideas about intelligence and how learning happens as well as their own ways of making sense of the world It is almost certain that everyone can believe that if there is a possibility for clarity , there is a possibility to comprehend something and others might have the possibility to be understood

Based on long and careful examination , particularly of children who do not seem to comprehend easily what may seem obvious to others , many teachers recognize that there are , indeed , many different ways of perceiving the world and multiple ways of making sense of one 's experiences . Certainly , in any group , each person notices and attends to different aspects of an experience . It often seems there are as many ways of knowing as there are people . But a closer examination of the theories on multiple intelligences can provide a middle ground between the idea that there is a single way in which how the minds work and the idea that all minds are unique . Theories , of course , are only theories but in attempting to comprehend the mind and , particularly , the minds in a teacher 's classroom , a good theory can help educators make sense of the surprising moves and strategies that students reveal

Practically all parts of the classroom are constructed within the region of what teachers want children to learn , and how they think they are most likely to learn...

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