Inteligencias Multiples (ingles)

The groups that I choose to begin my thesis are the second grades sections “A” and “E”. In second grade section “A” there are thirty-one students, which ones fifteen are girls and sixteen are boys, this is a very talkative group; their average of ages are between thirteen and fourteen years old. The other group where I find the problem that my thesis talk about is the group of second grade section “E” here, there are thirty-two students, there are eighteen girls and fourteen boys, their average age is about thirteen years old, there is on boy that has repeated two times second grade in the secondary school, so he is the oldest in the classroom.

The schedule that I have with my group second grade section “E” is on Mondays from three o’ clock until three forty-five, the Tuesdays is from five- thirty five until six twenty, and I do not see them until Thursday where my schedule is from six twenty until seven o’ clock. I think that the schedule is good for the students and form me, but I have a little problem on Thursdays at the last hour, because the students know that is the last hour; so they are very impatient at this time, it exist another problem because we continue living in a very dangerous city and very dangerous time, so the principal let go students more early.

Second Grade section “A” is a very special group for me they are very organized in everything we make inside the classroom in our English class, but they have a serious problem; when they try or present something to their partners like in conversations or read some exercises, the students are very shy, they prefer to be quiet and do not participate in class, because they are afraid to pronounce bad a word and that they partners make jokes about them. Second grade section “E” is a very hardworking group, but there are some students that bring down the average of the group, because they do not take care about their grades.

These students have a lot of abilities, each one of them are very different; there is a very good and smart student, she always pay attention in everything I explain, she is the best student in the classroom, and she is a very cooperative and support with her classmates. The students of second grade are very visual they like a lot that I make for them flashcards, so like that they understand better the vocabulary.

Some of the different techniques that I used with my students are flashcards, board games, bingos and different copies. So the students are able to pronounce correctly and that they encourage talking more English than Spanish during our class, I print for them an alphabet in English, and we practice each day the letters of the alphabet, the students enjoy all kind of games that I organize for them so they can understand better the class.

Multiple Intelligences.

Talking about multiple intelligences is to talk about the brilliant physiologist in education and a wonderful scientist, has develop seven different kinds of intelligences, this extraordinary theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and document that extend the ideas about that students have different ways how they learn, remember that all the people are different including their minds, so that is what Howard Gardner develop and explain in this theory.

According to this theory, "we are all able to know the world through language, logical-mathematical analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the use of the body to solve problems or to make things, an understanding of other individuals, and an understanding of ourselves. Where individuals differ is in the strength of these intelligences - the so-called profile of intelligences -and in the ways in which such intelligences are invoked and combined to carry out different tasks, solve diverse problems, and progress in various domains."

Gardner says that these differences "challenge an educational system that assumes that everyone can learn the same materials in the same way and that a uniform, universal measure suffices to test student learning. Indeed, as currently constituted, our educational system is heavily biased toward linguistic modes of instruction and assessment and, to a somewhat lesser degree, toward logical-quantitative modes as well." Gardner argues that "a contrasting set of assumptions is more likely to be educationally effective. Students learn in ways that are identifiably distinctive.

The broad spectrum of students - and perhaps the society as a whole - would be better served if disciplines could be presented in a numbers of ways and learning could be assessed through a variety of means." The learning styles are as follows: Logical-mathematical, spatial, linguistic, body-kinesthetic, musical, and intrapersonal interpersonal, naturalistic and existential.

Logical-mathematical Intelligence.

This theory talk about how students develop their ability to solve easily problems, they are capable to analyze something carefully, some of my students of second grade section “E” have thinks type

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