Archive for July, 2011

Multiple Intelligence Theory – How Do You Learn Best?

July 17th, 2011

When I was in school, wrote my strength. My drafting skills were what I believed to college. I did not know at the time, but this type of information as a “verbal / linguistic intelligence.” One theory is now widely accepted learning there are seven types of intelligence. These include:

Visual / Spatial Intelligence
Verbal / linguistic
Logical / Mathematical Intelligence
Bodily / kinesthetic intelligence
Musical / Rhythmic Intelligence
Interpersonal intelligence
Intrapersonal intelligence

Of course, we all have a mixture of all seven species, but usually one or two are dominant. In my case, bodily / kinesthetic intelligence, a second large verbal / linguistic, visual intelligence came third with / Spacial race and the other somewhere in the distance. Hence my career designing and building furniture design (bodily / kinesthetic, visual / spacial) and contain letters (verbal / linguistic, visual / spacial). Now that I’m older and less physically active than I was before I, has written a very successful career news. » Read more: Multiple Intelligence Theory – How Do You Learn Best?

Canoe Building – The Most Important Requirement Is Good Canoe Plan

July 15th, 2011

So you are on a project to build boats! I was several times. Number of boats that I built for myself and others helped to build so far is 25th Here I would like to share the most important lesson I have learned so far.

My first boat building project was a failure. Do you know why? This was not too much time looking for good plans to spend canoe with detailed instructions. This is the most important advice I would like you today. Prioritize the top to find the best plan for your canoe.

Canoe plans need more detail on some components that the other boat plans. When I had my first boat, I took a canoe apparently looking for me from a collection of five canoe plans. Without worry too much about him, I began to build.

It was a sailing canoe. It was the form that it took me the most. Some of his materials were not for me. I had extra from New York by a friend from me.

The manual has adopted a lapstreak boatbuilding. I have great care to follow each step. But neither the plan nor the manual is descriptive enough to doubt it, that started in my head after two days to clear. Somehow, after scratching my head several times and hard to work with some trial and error in five weeks, I completed my project to build a canoe.
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Curriculum Alignment in Public Schools

July 6th, 2011

Public schools and teachers use many tricks to keep students immersed in the classroom: technology, new books, a variety of activities, guest speakers. Studies have suggested for decades, the solution may be simpler than this. Set up the program in a school district contributes to the overall performance improve graduation rates and increase student learning and improves test results.

Classes and levels to the program of a school. Organize a district curriculum may seem simple, but to many minds working toward a goal. The problem is twofold: everybody needs in a school district to support the project and all it should be just that – a project. Research conducted by the county government: the magazine of the school district management has shown “without teacher buy-in, the efforts of the alignment may be a futile exercise.” The alignment process should be banned altogether. This means that all teachers and all administrators to work toward a common goal.

Head teachers should identify “holes” in their current curriculum. “Holes” includes topics repeatedly and untaught skills. Teachers, the teaching of the unity of love or kill time Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on 15 March can all have to change their plans. Regardless of the big picture of a district curriculum, retrain teachers necessarily material. In addition, most of the concepts from the previous build, and if the student does not catch up on this basis, they are playing or discouraged. Students learn best when they are bored or frustrated. » Read more: Curriculum Alignment in Public Schools