The multiple intelligence test indicated that my highest scores were in Linguistic (Word Smart) followed by Intrapersonal (Myself Smart) I scored fairly evenly across Kinaesthetic (Body Smart) Naturalistic (Nature Smart), Logical (number Smart) and visual /Spatial (Picture Smart) my lowest scores where in Interpersonal and Musical (Birmingham City Council 2013). Admittedly I agree I have strong tendencies to learn better when I only have to worry about myself which is funny considering I was in the Defence Force for 15 years and it is necessary to work as a team looking after your mate. However moving forward I think my personality is one that prefers to work alone.
(Birmingham City Council 2013)
After these results I conducted a SWOT on myself and focused on how I could ensure that I did not only utilise the things I was good at but also incorporate the other types of learning styles to ensure that I did not exclude any child who was under my teaching direction (Winch et al. 2011)
Strengths
- Good with words
- Enjoy writing and reading stories
- Comfortable in public speaking
- Love to debate a topic when I believe the outcome will benefit the majority
- I use facts, theories and true life experiences and knowledge to put forward my argument
- Will admit defeat if proven wrong (unless it involves my husband lol)
- Enjoy the outdoors
- Love drama, plays, theatre, music
- Enjoy using technology to gather information. Love FB, Pinterest and Twitter
- Find it difficult to picture something in my head without having some knowledge of it first
- Terrible at reading maps
- Not overly good at playing musical instruments
- Dislike relying on others to help me get results
- Maths
- Wiki & Blog beginner
- Create and learn more on blogs & wikis
- Understand how use of digital technology can promote and enhance learning in all learning styles of children
- Tap into the wealth of knowledge that the children have in regards to technology
- Identify what excites the children about technology
- Combine my skills and knowledge with ICT to improve my individual knowledge to ensure I am teaching the correct strategies
- Lack of time and resources
- slow connection, outdated software & hardware
- constant changing of the technology and knowledge to keep up with it.
- Learning through positive reinforcement
- Step by step process with an pre defined end result
- Re inventing what is already known
- A sensory register that mentally processes information that is relevant to the learner
- Working Memory: short term, stores for long term, graphs, charts ad images help with learning
- Working Memory: long term, learning knowledge and skills that will constantly be at disposal
- Learning via social circles including family, friends, sport, culture, race, values, beliefs, community rules and regulations
- Learning for the digital age
- Actions that are defined, linked and makes regular connections to what is being taught to increase the knowledge bank.
In evaluating myself I identified that I could use my strengths to design teaching lessons around what I could convey to the students but I must be mindful that I include all types of learning styles and gain a better understanding of how others learn. I could achieve this by further investigating my children and set up different types of learning activities including building, writing, reading, talking, role plays and then evaluate the children's strengths and identify what weaknesses they may have then organise activities that would build upon their learning knowledge in a way that would improve confidence and allow them opportunities to discover new ways of learning that they may have never thought of before (Marzono et.al 1997). The next step in the process would be to move to ICT resources and allow the children to further investigate what they had learnt utilising digital technology this would expand their declarative knowledge and enable their procedural knowledge to be an advantage form the classroom activities they had previously completed (Marzono et. al 1997). Additionally I would also need to consider if any threats may impact on the result I was trying to achieve time constraints, resources and possible resistance from the children due to uncertainty. I could reduce the risk of uncertainty and resistance by ensuring that the learning environment was fun, safe and secure where the children would be encouraged to participate without fear of failure (Winch et al. 2011)
All children deserve the right to stimulate all senses and as a future teacher I am excited and passionate about being able to contribute to their life skills.
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