elfmama_2

I was wondering, how can you tell if you have a kinesthetic learner?
I have a couple of books about multiple intelligences, but I'm
unclear about how to tell. And if you do have a kinesthetic learner,
how do you help/guide them with their learning? Also, can you be more
than one type of learner.
Rebecca

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In a message dated 4/14/03 9:40:05 PM, elfmama@... writes:

<< I was wondering, how can you tell if you have a kinesthetic learner?

I have a couple of books about multiple intelligences, but I'm

unclear about how to tell. And if you do have a kinesthetic learner,

how do you help/guide them with their learning? Also, can you be more

than one type of learner. >>

Starting at the end, anyone who doesn't have more than one way of learning is
pretty disabled. I think you should always provide stimuli of all kinds so
the child gets a full idea of the thing anyway. Something you only hear
about or see in a line drawing will not be learned as well as something you
can hear, see, taste, touch and smell.

Multiple intelligences aren't the same as learning styles. Someone can have
a high kinesthetic intelligence, like be a jock or a dancer, but that's not a
learning style. That's an intelligence--a facet of live which that person
understands naturally and deeply and learns more about easily (by various
methods of input).

Instead of labelling and categorizing kids, just give them all opportunities
in all kinds of fields. You could use Gardner's intelligences as a checklist
from time to time, for yourself to decide what kinds of activities you might
want to add to your schedule. If it's been a while since you got into nature
(hiked, camped, hung out near water) maybe you should do that. If you
haven't heard or played or sung much music lately, maybe try to work
something musical in, etc.

Sandra