At all levels, a learning community should work collaboratively towards educational achievement and the mastery of content skills. The community should also be welcoming, and students should feel a connection that motivates them to think critically. Luckily for many educators, lesson plans can be diversified, and methods can be modified, to accommodate the many learning styles present in today's classroom. Multiple intelligences are present in every environment. Gardener's theories are considerably accurate in identifying the many characteristics of different students.
A great website that breaks down the multiple intelligences
lhttp://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index.html
The problem for me is motivation. How do we motivate students to do the extra, hard work of critical thinking? Especially when most of them have gotten through twelve years of public education with very little critical thought. I'm not sure most of our students see the educational or economic value of critical thinking.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I really like this blog theme. Is it one of the Google themes? I might steal it. :-)
ReplyDeleteMotivation is definitely a major factor, and its an obstacle facing educators daily. All human beings respond to relevancy. I believe its human nature to do so.
ReplyDelete-It is a Google theme BTW..and sure you can steal it! LOL