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__** 3 Teachers understand that children learn differently **__ The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instruction to meet the diverse needs of pupils, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.

Evidence 3: [|Multiple Intelligences Practice Activity - SMART Notebook]

Rationale 3: After students have used the Birmingham Grid for Learning to learn about Multiple Intelligences in 8th grade social studies they practice identifying characteristics and activities related to each intelligence. This practice comes from a SMART Notebook file with a Flash player matching activity. For example, they would need to be able to identify that being asked to read the text is a word smart activity. A practice matching activity was developed in order to have students start creating the habit of identifying which intelligence they have to use in order to accomplish a given task. This habit helps them more efficiently and successfully learn information and master skills.

Using SMART Notebook’s Lesson Activity Toolkit helped me increase my competence in providing hands-on, body smart activities that engage the students. Body smart activities can be tough to incorporate into lessons, and even though using a laptop isn’t a lot of movement, it still provided body smart students with the outlet to be releasing energy through movement while learning. Developing these types of activities helped me better address the students with more visual learning styles, as well because they could see the intelligences and the corresponding characteristics and activities, rather than just hearing me explain them.

KSD 3.K.1 The teacher understands and can identify differences in approaches to learning and performance, including different learning styles, multiple intelligences, and performance modes, and can design instruction that helps use students’ strengths as the basis for growth.

The practice activity of matching characteristics and activities to intelligences demonstrates my knowledge of different learning styles and approaches to instruction. This importance of this knowledge is also demonstrated by the actual teaching of this information to the students for their cognitive growth. Students better learned how to help themselves with this lesson.

3.S.1 The teacher identifies and designs instruction appropriate to students’ stages of development, learning styles, strengths, and needs. The Multiple Intelligences SMART Notebook activity is designed to reach multiple learning styles and strengths. The use of the computer to participate in the activity is not a lot of movement, but does help kinesthetic learners release energy in a productive way while learning content. The matching of the characteristics and activities with the intelligences through Flash player is also beneficial to visual learners. Finally, just the use of technology plays to many students’ needs to use technology over paper and pencil or their strength in figuring out how to complete computer activities.

3.D.1 The teacher believes that all children can learn at high levels and persists in success. The activity, as well as the content, lend to the belief that all students are capable of high levels of success in their learning. Many educational experiences for students revolve around one or two intelligences, leaving students without those strengths alienated and identified as unable to achieve at high levels. However, when learning is provided in many learning styles educators can see that all students can learn successfully. Part of students’ learning at high levels includes a certain level of metacognition by the student in order create that ladder to higher levels themselves. Teaching them the way they learn accomplishes that.