Howard Gardner Reflection Paper

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This past quarter I’ve learning many things in this course. Such as, the meaning of play, learning styles and what they are, Howard Gardner 's work, the eight intelligences, and finally, what brain research shows us.

To begin, the meaning of play, many schools across he country are cutting back on free play with children so they can spend more time in the classroom. When in reality, are those teachers really helping their children? According to Time magazine, play, plays an essential role in young children’s lives and without that little break of play and fresh air the children will get overwhelmed and possibly stop learning and become disengaged. Personally, I don’t like sitting for a long time just listening to teachers talk without …show more content…

with all these intelligences it is clear to see that all children have a great chance to be different and unique, some may be strong in interpersonal but maybe be weak in interpersonal, their are endless combinations that children can have because there are so many different components to Howard’s theory. For example, I took a test to see where my strengths are according to Howard’s theory. Surprisingly, most of the intelligences were pretty even across the board except for naturalistic and logical mathematical. Although those are my weakest strengths I am trying to strengthen them by going outside more and playing with my kids at work and also by working on mathematical puzzles and games to boost my mathematical …show more content…

Such as, I’ll take into consideration the different learning styles and different intelligences when planning for activities and also how to expand on specific topics to help children to grasp a better understanding of all activities and topics that I go over with the children.

Finally, Howard Gardner 's work and the eight intelligences, Howard Gardner came up with the eight intelligences which are, Verbal linguistic, logical mathematical, interpersonal, interpersonal, visual spatial, musical rhythmic, bodily and naturalistic. with all these intelligences it is clear to see that all children have a great chance to be different and unique, some may be strong in interpersonal but maybe be weak in interpersonal, their are endless combinations that children can have because their are so many different components to Howard’s theory. For example, I took a test to see where my strengths are according to Howard’s theory. Surprisingly, most of the intelligences were pretty even across the board except for naturalistic and logical mathematical. Although those are my weakest strengths I am trying to strengthen them by going outside more and playing with my kids at work and also by working on mathematical puzzles and games to boost my mathematical

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