Teaching so Every Child can Learn

• Opening Activity Idea: Memorable stories

  • Provide a piece of paper and marker for each volunteer

  • Ask each volunteer to identify a story they remember from childhood.

  • Ask them to write down one line from the story on the piece of paper.

  • Have each volunteer hang up their piece of paper at the front of the room.

  • Read each line aloud and ask the remaining volunteers if they can guess what story the line is from.

  • You could award a prize to the volunteer who identifies the most stories correctly!

• Preparation for video content or lead your volunteers in reviewing Multiple Intelligences materials (see handout)

  • Verbal: Retain information through hearing stories, reading, or writing

  • Logical: Retain information through patterns, numbers, lists, timelines

  • Visual: Retain information through pictures and images

  • Musical: Retain information through songs and rhythms

  • Physical/Tactile: Retain information through movement of their bodies or hands

  • Solitary: Retain information when given time to reflect, ponder, and consider

  • Social: Retain information through interaction with others and hearing their thoughts

• Practice together:

  • Choose a Bible story (example: Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers)

  • Divide into small groups

  • Each group come up with 1-2 ideas for each of the multiple intelligences categories

  • Share their ideas with the rest of the group

• Discussion:

  • Which of the multiple intelligences categories most connect with you as a learner/teacher?

  • Which of the following do you need help in finding ideas to connect with children who learn differently than you do?

• Concluding Activity:

  • Challenge your volunteers to use a new method during their next lesson to try to connect with children who they might not easily connect with because of their learning preferences.

(Handout)

• Introduction:

• Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)

  • Verbal: Retain information through hearing stories, reading, or writing

  • Logical: Retain information through patterns, numbers, lists, timelines

  • Visual: Retain information through pictures and images

  • Musical: Retain information through songs and rhythms

  • Physical/Tactile: Retain information through movement of their bodies or hands

  • Solitary: Retain information when given time to reflect, ponder, and consider

  • Social: Retain information through interaction with others and hearing their thoughts

Consider: Which of the above categories would describe your learning preferences?

Challenge: Use a new method this week to connect with children who learn differently than you do!