Let's Get Theoretical

 

   
PART 1- THEORIES

 

1. Bodily Kinesthetics intelligence- Learn through the interaction of the environment and concrete experiences.

Their skills include: dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build

2. Verbal Linguistic intelligence - Learn through spoken and written words. Student is well spoken, highly developed auditory skills, great public speaker.

Their skills include: listening, speaking, writing, storytelling, explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, debating

3. Logical Mathematical intelligence - Learn through reasoning and problem solving.

Their skills include: problem solving, classifying and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other

4. Visual Spatial intelligence - Learn visually such as organizing ideas spatially, think in pictures, vivid mental images, maps, charts.

Their skills include: puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing

5. Rhythmic Musical intelligence - Learn through songs, patterns, rhythm.

Their skills include: singing, whistling, playing musical instruments, recognizing tonal patterns, composing music, remembering melodies, understanding rhythms

6. Interpersonal intelligence - Learn through interactions with others, the ability to related and understand others, their point of view, what they feel and think about, they are good leaders, strong writers, verbal and non-verbal skills.

Their skills include: seeing things from other perspectives (dual-perspective), listening, using empathy, understanding other people's moods and feelings, counseling

7. Intrapersonal intelligence -  Learn through feelings, values and attitudes. Can self-reflect and is aware of their self-being, understand themselves, good at analyzing, evaluating thought patterns.

Their Skills include: Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, evaluating thinking patterns

8. Naturalist intelligence - Learning through classification, categories, nature smart.

Their Skills include: Recognizing flora and fauna and weather patterns, classifying animal and plant species, nurturing one’s surroundings

In reflection to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, I will definitely be incorporating it into the classroom as I believe it is important help assist students in being successful. This gets away from the traditional idea of teaching and explores new strategies to optimize student growth and success within the classroom. I believe the use of this theory needs to incorporate asking different questions, having students take an active role on their learning and provide hands on experience. Each child has different intellectual strengths and weaknesses so providing differentiated instruction is imperative to help build on existing strengths to allow students to be successful. Within my Dance and Geometry post, this is the perfect example of cross-curricular learning and adding rhythmic musical intelligence into mathematics.

Laban looked upon movement as a two-way language process through which the body could communicate by giving and receiving messages.  He believed that movement stems from the inter-dependence of body, mind, and spirit; he understood that our inner life relates to the outer world.  Laban created a theoretical language in order to help the observer understand and record movement objectively.  He worked from the premise that the way a person moved represented what was going on unconsciously in their inner world.

Laban’s theories can be viewed in three parts:

1.              What moves? (whole body, parts, upper/lower) 
                 How do we move? (effort, dynamics, time)

  Where do we move? (the space around us, personal space, general space)

Specifically, creative Dance structure is divided into 4 main areas: the body, the effort, the space and the relationship.

1.        The body moves in different ways 

The effort can be understood as what action takes place in time, with energy, through space and with

flow of movement.

The space is where all actions go as the body explores movements.

  The relationship occurs as two dancers interrelate with their actions.

It is important to note that these four areas are constantly interwoven as dance is explored, but for the purposes of teaching they are separated.