Learning how to be a teacher is hard, but is interesting. As a
teacher, I have so many students who have different level of thinking,
different intelligences, and different types of learning. Those things guide me
to act and think creatively in delivering my lessons. “Multiple Intelligences” (MI)
and “Bloom’s Taxonomy” (BT) is two ways that can solve those things - different
level of thinking, different intelligences, and different types of learning.
Then, another “question” is how to create and implement MI and BT in my lesson?
As we know, BT means “challenging tasks,” so the activities are ordered from
the easiest until the hardest. Last week, I learned how to create some
activities using BT for learning. My partner and I chose the topic about
“color,” then we create some activities which could be done in one day
teaching, I mean the activities could be finished in once meeting. We started
from remembering the colors by singing a song, watching a video, differentiating
primary and secondary colors, and then we finished by creating and evaluating
about the mixed-colors, so the activities are ordered increasingly.
After re-thinking about the MI activities that were made by my
friends, most of them made MI became project. It’s like make a drama, my
friends divided some tasks for each students who have different intelligences.
For example, for the musical-person their task is making a song, for
logical-person their task is budgeting, for visual-person their task is
arranging the places, something like that. Most of my friends made MI like
that. My mind wonders “does MI always like that?” I mean can MI be used in once
meeting?
Annas’ group made activities for once meeting; a program for
separating garbage. Actually, it’s great, but they set the program for “visual-auditory-kinesthetic
learners.” My question is “is MI same with visual-auditory-kinesthetic
learners?” I think they are different because MI consists of 8 types of
intelligences, meanwhile visual-auditory-kinesthetic is the kinds of
learning-style. So guys, what do you think of this? Do you wanna share your
ideas with me? :D
