La Trobe Session 6 Thursday 23 August 2007

Introduction and Re-cap (5 min)

Last session

• Rich Assessment Tasks
• Introduction to Multiple Intelligence
  

This session

• More on MI
• Designing across strands

Correspondence: Links to blog and Google doc on Designing across strands.

Behaviour

• Listening with understanding and empathy:"is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and directly feel the emotion of another. As the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively define another's mode of thought and mood. Empathy is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or experiencing the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself, a sort of emotional resonance.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy

• Reflective writings
  

Survey quotes: Comments about content knowledge

"I know them all evenly, which is only a little, so I need to go over everything a little just as a refresher"

"CAS & Graphics calculators Brush up on course content Linking outcomes to assessment/hurdle tasks"

"specialist stuff, vectors mainly"

"I certainly need to review circular functions."

Warm up ( 2 min )

The following diagram shows a car rolling down a slope. The car has a mass of 1.2 × 10^3 kg and the slope is at 15° to the horizontal. The acceleration due to gravity is 10 m s^−2.


If the total resistance force acting on the car has a magnitude of 1000 N, calculate the acceleration of the car.

Learning Activities

1. Multiple Intelligence....continued (60 min)

Review: Comparing Multiple Intelligences from Online Test and Self Assessment.

Task 1: Remember

• List all the Multiple Intelligence's you can recall.
  

Task 2: Understand

• Handout 1: Matching Intelligence with skills
  
• Categorise each of the descriptions according to MI
  

Task 3: Apply

• Handout 2: Matching Intelligence with Occupation
  
• Classify each of the occupations listed according to MI.
  

Task 4: Analyse

• Handout 3: Silent Card Shuffle Take 2.
• Identify the missing cards and write down the descriptor(s) that should be in their place.
  

Task 5: Evaluate

• Handout 4: Blooming Smarts Master Planning Matrix.
  
• Recommend a maths based activity for each Intelligence. You are free to decide which area of maths and are not obliged to make all activities for the same area of study.

• Handout 5: Sample using 'a' Blooming Smarts Master Planning Matrix. There is lots of versions floating around.
  

Task 6: Create

• Handout 6: Butchers paper, coloured markers.
  
• Group drawing and creativity. Invent a mascot for your table to act as a metaphor for Multiple Intelligence. Give 'em a name, it'll be cute...
  

Task 7: Listening with understanding and empathy

• Write a reflective piece about your thoughts on Multiple Intelligences.
  

BREAK for 5 minutes

Intermission

(Safari...)

2. Designing units across 'strands' (30 min)

Task 1: Understanding the benefits.

• Handout 7: de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.
  

Task 2: Choosing your outcomes. Backward Design.

Task 3: Being creative.

• A page from the newspaper. Choose an article/ advertisement.
  
• Plan a short unit of work that links across 2 or more areas of study and is based on an article in the news . Unit to be between 3 and 5 lessons.
• Enter your information into the Google doc, Designing across strands, look at this document first to see what is required.
  
• You are not allowed to choose from an area of study that is Data based, i.e this means no statistics.
  
• Tony Ryan's Thinking Keys
  
• Thinking Toolbox
  
• 'Hooking' the students in.
  

Task 4: Assessing

• How, when, what, why?

Task 5: Delivering your unit through a podcast.

• Make a simple podcast using iMovie.
  
• I'll demonstrate how easy it is???
  

Review (5 min)

Time for any remaining questions and review of todays workshop.

Professional reading for next week

Edward de Bonos Six Thinking Hats

Applied Learning