FCS FLASH: Brains are Wired Differently

What Do You Know About Multiple Intelligences <DOWNLOAD>

FCS FLASH  
ISSUE Number 91: October 14, 2008

 

October 25: Monterey: Costume Society of America Distressed Costumes Workshop <LINK>
October 25: Redwood City: Canada College Fashion Open House & Designer Sale <LINK>
November 1 - April 5: San Francisco: Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit <LINK>
November 5 - 8: Chicago, IL: ITAA Annual Meeting: Evolving Patterns <LINK>
November 9 - Dec 5: Throughout California: CCCECE Fall Regional Meetings <LINK>  & other important dates
November 13: Downey: Explore the World of Organic Foods <LINK>
November 21 - 25: National Harbor, MD: Gerontological Society of America Annual Conference <LINK>
December 4 - 6: Charlotte, NC: ACTE Convention & Career Expo <LINK>
March 15 - 19: Las Vegas: Joint Conference National Council on Aging/American Society on Aging <LINK>
March 26 - 28: Sacramento: CAEYC Conference <LINK>  California Association for the Education of Young Children
September 25 & 26: Sacramento: CSA Western Region, 2009 Symposium "Costume in the American West" Call For Papers <LINK>

To Get It Right, Use Your FCS Site!
Check out a new job listing: Saddleback Community College is seeking an Assistant Manager for their Child Development Center <LINK> . For a closer look at how California funds Child Development programs, link to "If it Ain't Broke, Then Why Are We...? <LINK> " by Alan Guttman. Then read Melanie Horn Mallers' compelling article on Empathy <LINK> . She offers plenty of solid research as well as ideas on how to be a more compassionate communicator. Finally, be sure to send your new events, job openings, and interesting articles to jdriggers@mtsac.edu, and we'll get the word out.

FCS Activity: Brains are Wired Differently
People are smart in different ways. John Medina, in Brain Rules, contends that every brain is wired differently <LINK> , with limitless configurations. Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory speculates that people possess eight different kinds of intelligences. While Medina's 7 billion wiring configurations are too many to address, Gardner's multiple intelligences provides an easier way to get our arms around different kinds of smarts. Exposing students and helping them identify how they are smart <LINK>  will give them insight into how they learn and what careers are most suitable.

Try this:
Introduce students to the Theory of Multiple Intelligences by showing this 2-minute video <VIDEO> .
Distribute the attached quiz on What Do You Know about Multiple Intelligences?
Allow students a few minutes to answer the questions, then review the answers:
1. Bodily-kinesthetic; 2. Naturalist; 3. Spatial; 4. Logical-mathematical; 5. Inter-personal intelligence; 6. Musical intelligence; 7. Intra-personal intelligence; and 8. Linguistic intelligence.
Draw an MI grid on the board and ask students how they think they are smart. Put responses in the grid. What are the predominant intelligences in your class?
Ask how students could use this information. If they want to do their own assessment, suggest they download this one <DOWNLOAD>.

FYI: We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don't show up on IQ tests. John Medina, author of Brain Rules <VIDEO>

This newsletter was brought to you by a grant from the California Community College Chancellor's Office Family and Consumer Science Collaborative Grant (#06-0160).
Please contact Joann Driggers (jdriggers@mtsac.edu) with any questions.
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