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Multiple

Intelligences
My MI strengths are spread out over five categories. My top category is
intrapersonal. My other strengths from highest to lowest are visual/spatial, Musical,
kinesthetic and logical. My two weaknesses are linguistic and naturalistic. I see
these strengths and weaknesses very clearly in my daily life. I tend to struggle a
little with collaboration and working with groups, which can be a challenge teaching
middle school. I meet with my core team or professional learning committee daily
and while I am learning to be more involved it has been a struggle for me at times. I
tend to get frustrated easily with others when they cant see the logic and simplicity
in any given task. I dont seem to have these struggles much when working with
students in my class, just when working with peers.

When I think about teaching to other peoples strengths and weaknesses I feel it is
important to do both. I try to provide options for my students that will reach each of
their strengths while also teaching them to work through their weaknesses.
Providing reading tasks for visual learners, listening tasks for audible learners, and
hands on tasks for kinesthetic learning are just a few things I try to incorporate into
my daily lessons.

Website Discussion
After viewing the three websites I think Dales Cone of Experience and The
Universal Design for Learning give examples of what takes place within Blooms
Taxonomy. I dont know if that is what they were meant to do but in my opinion
that is what I see. Looking at it from that perspective I can see Blooms lowest level,
knowledge or remembering can be tied to the learning that is taking place when
using activities from top of Dales Cone and the bottom level of UDL. This pattern
seems to follow at all levels of Blooms Taxonomy. For example students would be
using the highest order thinking skills when it is a personal experience or when they
are creating something from all the experiences they learned at the lower levels.

TIP Theory
I chose the Mathematical Problem Solving Theory by A. Schoenfeld because I teach
math. The website states the theory is primarily applied to college level math
however I find it relevant to middle school as well. I think this theory is useful to my
teaching because students must have a solid foundation in problems solving from a
young age to be successful when they get to the college level. I also believe this
theory is useful in the light of the new college and career readiness standards.
Students need to be able to work through a variety of problems showing multiple
ways for reaching their conclusions.

About udl. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.cast.org
Mathematical problem solving. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/tip/schoen.html

Multiple intelligences. (n.d.). Retrieved from


www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose
_lang.cfm


Rhizome guide to dale's cone of experiences. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://tinyurl.com/7pd2s6l
[Web log message]. Retrieved from http://visualblooms.wikispaces.com/HOME

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