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"Personalising learning in the classroom".

Personalising learning. "We can no longer assume
that all students will
achieve by being taught the same way."
And in our previous sessions, we spoke
about multiple
intelligences and adapting how our
learners learn, and how we could teach.
Personalised learning, perhaps it would be
useful for
you to look at the website that's listed, iNet:
the International Networking for Educational
Transformation.
It is an international network of schools,
organizations,
and individuals who are committed to
transforming learning
through innovation.
Look at the site,
and ask yourself the question, how could
this
be useful for how I could change my
teaching?
How I could take cognisance of how my
learners learn?
Perhaps you may want to share this with
your peers
and look collectively
of how you could think about your learners
and your school, and how they learn.
Deep learning.
Before I go to
deep learning, let's talk about a surface
approach to teaching or learning.
It's studying without reflecting on purpose or strategy.
Treating the curriculum as unrelated bits of
knowledge.
Let's look at the deep approach, or
deep learning.
And here the emphasis is on relating
the idea to
previous knowledge and experience.
So, your sequencing of information is
really important.
Looking for patterns and underlying
principles -
that there's some thread to the content
you're presenting,
that it layers on what you've done
previously.
So, what you're presenting to your learners
just
doesn't seem abstract.
That you just suddenly snatched it from
somebody, but it's built on previous
learning, previous teaching. Most
importantly, deep learning grows on
multiple intelligences, what we've
spoken about in previous sessions.
I'd like to spend some time talking about
multiple intelligences
and how it impacted the way you teach.
Now, I want you to bring this very specifically
to your classroom, and to what you teach.
I'd like you to take any lesson.
Think about it.
Look at the slide on how multiple
intelligences impact the way you teach.
On the left hand side, you'll see all the
learning styles that are listed.
For instance; the verbal,
linguistic learning; logical, mathematical learning;
or interpersonal learning.
Now, it's not possible to draw on all these
learning styles in a particular lesson,
and that might be a challenge.
But I want you to think about the lesson,
and how you can draw on as many of those
learning styles in that lesson that
you will teach.
So, I'd like you to pause the
video at this point, and to think about
the lesson that
you want to choose.
And think about the learning styles on the
left hand side, of how you can draw on that.
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Let's take teaching a science lesson.
What are some of the things a teacher in
that
class could do by drawing on those
multiple learning styles?
So firstly, the teacher might give an instruction, or
give some content
information about the lesson he or she's
about to teach.
And that will be pretty much drawing on
verbal/linguistic learning.
The teacher may decide to put learners
into a group, to let that
group of learners to problem solve, to discuss, and that teacher will be
drawing on the interpersonal learning.
The teacher might give that group an
experiment to do.
Learners could draw on bodily or
kinesthetic learning,
by touching, doing experiments, seeing
the results.
Of course, naturalistic
learning, and getting the students to
collect data from that experiment
could also be drawn on. Now, I've just used a couple of examples of
learning styles that a teacher teaching a
lesson on science might be able to discern.
So, multiple intelligences in the
classroom provide different potential
pathways to learning.
If a teacher is having difficulty reaching
a
student in a more traditional linguistic
and logical way
of instruction, the theory of multiple
intelligences suggests
other ways in which the material might be
presented
to facilitate effective learning.
Now, this slide of questions for multiple
intelligence lesson planning is a useful
framework.
I've taken you through a lesson on
teaching science that you can draw on.
Here you can look more specifically at
what you teach,
and look at the framework of how you could
apply drawing on
multiple learning styles.
Let me draw your attention to a primary
school example.
Caps for Sale is a book by Slobodkina.
A reading of this book is complete with
the drawing, and is available
on a YouTube site which is listed on
this slide.
Watch that.
Now, let's look at the multiple
intelligence approach to reading Caps for
Sale.
And look at the various learning styles
that one could draw from.
Perhaps you can think of more.
Let's look at the verbal lingustic
learning style that one can draw from:
getting students to write a story about a
magical cap.
Let's look at the logical or the
mathematical learning style:
using caps or monkeys
as a basis for some mathematical problems.
Or let's look at the interpersonal: with
other students discussing the characters
in the story.
In this way, this story, you can see the
multiple learning styles.
Some things to do next:
look at the website about using multiple
intelligences in the classroom,
and you could look at
various lessons that you are teaching, and
how you could use this framework of
thinking, of how you could draw multiple
learning styles, and how you could adapt
your teaching to respond to this.
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