![]() Chapter 2 Prompt: Using Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, describe three intelligences in which you excel and give an example of each. How could these intelligences be useful when you become a teacher? According to the multiple intelligence quiz, my top three intelligences are spatial, nature, and self/intrapersonal. Spatial intelligence means that I am good at visual learning and mentally manipulating objects, which makes a lot of sense considering my aptitude for drawing and painting. This also explains why I do best at spelling when I can write the word down rather than spell it out loud. I hated spelling bees as a kid in elementary school. As a teacher, this intelligence serves me well because I create a lot of drawings and models for my students to better visualize science concepts. Naturalistic intelligence means that I am very interested in nature and animals. I have my parents to thank for feeding this intelligence growing up. I have many childhood memories of my mom catching garter snakes for me and my brother, watching Shark Week (since 1990), and going fishing and camping on Horn Island. Having a high aptitude for naturalistic intelligence also explains why I thrived during my summer in Belize working in the jungle (no joke, we hiked 3 miles in and 3 miles out via macheted-trails everyday) doing archaeology. We dealt with monkeys, insects, scorpions, scorpion spiders, toucans, turkeys, and snakes every day during the rainy season. I have the perfect job right now because I get to teach high school zoology! I found it very amusing that while preparing my lecture last spring on amphibians and reptiles that I had tons of personal pictures of frogs, toads, iguanas, and snakes that I have taken. My students think I’m a bit crazy, but I have tons of personal stories about my encounters with animals from huge insects to sharks to greyhounds that really enriches the content I teach. Self or intrapersonal intelligence means that I am well in tuned with understanding myself and have more introverted tendencies. This intelligence has both been good and bad. During the recent quarantine, I have found this to serve me well; however, in school, this has been a hindrance at times. People with intrapersonal intelligence tend to mull over a question before answering. When I was in graduate classes that were all discussion based, I found that the conversation would move on before I could formulate my contribution to the discussion, which is hard when your grade depends on your involvement. So, as a teacher, I try to involve all my students by giving them a couple of minutes to formulate their answer to a question before we enter a discussion phase.
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