Interviewing Mr. Scott's Class about their Intelligences

Our current unit of inquiry is all about learning with the central idea "Understanding different ways of learning enables people to respond to their own learning needs as well as those of others." As part of our study, we have been looking at the scientific research of Howard Gardner on what he classifies as Multiple Intelligences (or intelligences for discussion purposes in our classroom). As part of our inquiry into different people's intelligences, we decided to interview different members of our family including older adults in our families as well as young children to see if there is any variation in the activities people enjoy and their "intelligences".

On Friday, 23 August, we interviewed Mr. Scott's ELC3 and Reception students about their activity preferences. We then used the information we collected to find out what kinds of intelligences are their strengths and weaknesses. We will use the data we collected to create a pie chart about their dominant intelligences next week. We will also be interpreting this data, looking for trends.

We also interviewed Mr. Scott and found out that his dominant intelligences were bodily-kinesthetic and interpersonal. We are now wondering how this relates to his choice of career.

We also learned a lot of about working with younger students. Some of these revelations included that we have to be patient because they might not understand our question the first time, sometimes we needed to rephrase our questions because they have not had the experiences we are asking them about yet (for example, writing assignments) and that we need to take breaks so they are able to focus on our questions so they can give an accurate answer.

Please join us at assembly next week (Friday, 30 August). We will be presenting some of the data we have gathered about different people's intelligences and sharing our interpretations with you. We look forward to seeing you then.

Below are some photos of us working with our ELC3 and Reception friends.

We even decided to interview Mr. Scott to find out the things at which he is good.

We are so proud of our new to English friends! They did a great job of asking the questions and writing down the answers.

After we asked our ELC3 and Reception friends the questions, we recorded the answers and calculated the totals for each intelligence.

We think everyone had a good time. It was nice to meet some of our new ELC3 and Reception friends.