Chapter 5

What?
This week we talked about chapter 5, Individual Differences and Special Educational Needs.
Theorists
SPEARMAN’s concept of “g”
-Intelligence is a single entity
-quickly and efficiently

GARDNER’S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
-suggests that there are at least 7 (8) different abilities or intelligences that are relatively independent of one another.
-Most, if not all, students are intelligent in one way or another.

CATTELL’s Fluid and Crystallized Intelligences

STERNBERG’s Triarchic Theory
-Analytical
-Creative
-Practical

Now what?
By knowing these theorist I can become a better teacher. I can focus different learning styles to fit the needs of my students. That is the most important thing. If I am the best teacher but cannot connect with my students, I am the worst teacher. If a teacher connects with a student and teaches in a way that the student can learn that teacher becomes the best teacher. Knowing the intelligences is important in knowing what kind of learning style us needed.

So what?
I am going to apply the things that i have learned in this chapter to my classroom when i graduate. I agree that all of us are different and we all need different learning styles to reach our greatest potential. I took the multiple intelligence test and found out that I am a very visual/spacial learner as well as logical and kinasthetic.