LESSON 6: MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & LEARNING STYLES I

Speaker’c corner 1: Lawrence Stenhouse

Lawrence Stenhouse (29 March 1926-1982) was a British educational thinker who sought to promote an active role for teachers in educational research and curriculum development. 

Stenhouse was particularly influential during the 1960s and 1970s. He helped to develop innovative classwork for secondary school pupils through the Schools Council Humanities Project.

SHOULD WE TEACH KNOWLEDGE OR SKILLS?

• My reflection of this: 

In my opinion, we should teach both of them, evenly and combined. 

The contents that students learn in school are not only conceptual (facts and concepts) but also procedural, that is to say, content that teaches "how to do something".

Therefore, we must teach what an equation is, but also, how to solve it. Or another example: it is useless for a student to learn the whole biography (knowledge) of a literary author, if after, he does not know reading and interpreting his work (skills).

Here we can observe 7 essential skills students must develop nowadays in order to success. 

THE SOLO TAXONOMY: 

When we talk about taxonomy, we refer to a hierarchy of skills about learning. We start from the most simple skill, and the learning of higher skills depends on the acquisition of the previous skills. 

As in this picture, we can observe that each skills requires the previous one to be acquired. That is to say, I would not be able to describe (3rd step) if I did not acquire the ability to identify.