EDU120 Principles of Instructional Design

Stephanie Parlee, MAT, MSCE

Week Overview

Reading◦Articles

Discussion◦Multiple Intelligence

Discussion◦Learning Styles

Assignment◦Multiple Intelligence

Powerpoint

Week 2 Learning Outcomes

Apply Gardner’s Theory of Multiple

Intelligences to assess strengths and

weaknesses.

Identify learning styles and how they might be addressed in delivery of online

instruction.

Design a Lesson utilizing multiple

intelligence theory.

Aligning Course Objectives & the Week’s activities.

Learning Objective

Reading

Deliverable

Apply Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences to assess strengths and

weaknesses

Guignan, A.Armstrong, ThomasBirmingham Grid for

Learning

Discussion – Multiple Intelligence

Identify learning styles and how they might be addressed in delivery of online instruction.

Cooze, M. & Barbour, M.

Discussion – Learning Styles

Design a Lesson utilizing multiple

intelligence theory.

Readings & Discussions

Powerpoint Resource

Powerpoint Presentation –

Applied example, lesson plan

My Multiple Intelligences

Analyzing My Results

Weaknesses Strengths

Naturalistic

Intrapersonal

Linguistic

Logical

Intrapersonal

Visual Spatial

Musical

Birmingham Grid of Multiple Intelligences

Using the results of the Birmingham Grid, I was able to analyze my strengths and weaknesses.

As I reviewed the results, I questions some of the results. For example, I tend to have very poor spatial skills. I have difficulty estimating distance, size and volume. I do, however, have good visual memory. I tend to “see” a picture of the memory in my mind. I could see how the test reached this conclusion based on the aspects of this learning trait that it assessed.

After you complete the text, assess your strengths and weaknesses. Were you surprised by any of the results? Why or why not?

What next?

When we sit down to develop a lesson plan, we often draw on our own experiences as a student first and foremost. How did we learn this skill or information in school? This leads to the repetition of approaches and may eventually narrow the techniques used. We see a strong emphasis on linguistic and logical intelligences in the teaching community and so too in the lessons presented.

To move beyond this narrow construct, we have to look more consciously at drawing on the seven to nine identified intelligences as we work to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to master and demonstrate understanding of the learning outcomes.

This week’s assignment consists of three distinct components – the learning outcomes, the learning activities and an analysis explaining how the lesson draws on each of the eight intelligences defined and described in the Birmingham Grid.

At what point in the design process should you start to think about incorporating each intelligence? How heavily should you draw on each? Should it be an equal weighting? Why or why not?

Sharing Resources

Exploring the way that we learn can help us to be better students and teachers. There are a number of websites that I enjoy for information about our learning styles. I will share a few of them with you here.

Likewise, if you have a favorite resource, please feel free to share it in the Ashford Café in our classroom.

Learning Styles Survey #1

This is one of my favorite all time learning style surveys. It does an excellent job of examining our learning styles across four separate spectrums. Then gives us tips for managing our strengths and weaknesses.

Learning Styles Survey #2

This is a more traditional learning styles survey, but I find the questionnaire to be thorough and more accurate for me. In addition, the website has a wealth of information about different learning styles.

Learning Styles

This picture uses the family tree structure to illustrate the different learning styles. How could it be made better, to show more?

When we first examine the learning styles as presented by Gardner, we may see them as 9 separate categories. Really though, the 9 distinct learning styles share certain characteristics that allow us to group the learning styles and understand them on a deeper level.

This website does an excellent job of presenting the information textually. I really enjoy the graphic, however. Here we quickly see how and where the intelligences interact. Do you find that your strengths all fit into one type of learning or do you have a strength in each?

Week 2 Assignment NotesRubric

•Week 2 Assignment Rubric

•Content – 8.5 points – Make sure each required elements is addressed and addressed in detail. Review the requirements for each line items on the rubric.

•Mechanics and Writing – 1.5 points – Review each of the 5 specific criteria used to assess mechanics and writing.

Content

•Identified Specific Learning Outcome

•Describes Learning Activity / Combination of Activities

•Explains how Each Intelligence is Represented in the Activity or Combination Activities

Mechanics

•Content & Purpose of Writing

•Control of Syntax and Mechanics

•APA Formatting

•Slide Requirement

•Resource Requirement

Temple Grandin– TED Talk

As you think this week about learning styles and design, I thought that you would enjoy one of my all time favorite TED Talks – Temple Grandin: The word needs all kinds of minds.

Temple Grandin looks at the need for a variety of strengths. Where we are quick to see weaknesses with some types of minds, Temple helps us to see how the full spectrum of minds bring value, tremendous value, to the human race. This is important as we look to the process of curriculum design and make decisions about which strengths and weaknesses we will work to engage.

Enjoy – and have a great week!

Stephanie