chapter 12
Try out one of the "Christopherian Encounters" explained on page 116 and reflect on your observations. Certainly feel free to substitute your own example...you only need to try one. If possible use an intelligence that represents most of your class
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The encounter I would choose would be an intrapersonal encounter. When I read to the children I encourage them to make a connection with self to text. If I were reading Little Red Riding Hood before I read to them I would encourage the children to think about a visit they made to there grandmother. I would ask questions like, “Have you visited your grandmother?, Can you walk to her house?, What kinds of things would you take to your grandmother's house?.” After reading and discussing the story I would have them think about any other story they may have read that was like this story. Making connections between self and text improves comprehension. Learning to do this improves the intrapersonal intelligences in all students.
Like Linda; I would like to have my students be active in an intrapersonal challenge of themselves and their interpretations of themselves. While it may occur in group with at-risk/challenged learners; I would hope that all students would experience that reflection. I am able to do Freshmen and Senior meetings, Junior seminars and Sophmore career exploration. I am constantly tying in personal decisions to their lifetime goals dreams, and aspirations. Obviously, with some students this is more of a struggle. However, exploring healthy/positive choices and the decisions they make today impacts their future. I am making them aware that high school is a mere 720 days in a building and what they do with those days will set the tone for the rest of their lives. I look to encourage them to explore who they are and where they are going and how do they get there.
I just heard a man talk to our Masters group today that really involved us in the connectedness and the goal setting. where am I going etc...if you ever get a chance to hear or if you are looking for an enthusiastic presenter which rejuvenates kids and teachers contact Carl Olson and he lives in Sun Prairie...he is dynamite and has a tremendous message
The encounter I would try in my class would be the Spatial Intelligence. I would show some wonderful examples of artwork and then I would show some darker colorless examples of tessellations by M.C. Escher. His work is filled with many repeating patterns and I guess some might not consider that beautiful artwork. This would help somewhat understand that not all art has to be pleasant and pleasing to the eye. Then in class we would create our own tessellations and make our own geometric connections.
When I teach about how the senses affects our food choices, I start out by asking them to list foods they don't like and why? (One student told me does not eat anything green because green foods look disgusting) Then I show them the tape "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr.Suess. I have them each write a response of how this relates to the senses. I could extend this by asking them to relate their own food choices to the senses or why or why not they eat the foods they do. This would be an excellent way to prompt the "Christopherian encounters" through Intrapersonal Intelligence.
I stuggled with this one a little bit so I decided to go to the world of athletics and coaching basketball and actually combined using bodily-kinesthetic intelligence along with intrapersonal intelligence.
Every spring I preach to my basketball players after the season to increase their strength and speed by the next year. I tell them the greatest way to do this is to sign up for strength and speed camp that runs throughout two days a week throughout the course of the summer. They each start with a baseline test at the start of the camp and then are asked to project where they will be at the end. The camp is run by a local Chiropractor who pushes these kids beyond what their expectations are. For the past 4 years I have had at least two white kids under 6 feet able to dunk because of their commitment to that rigorous program. In fact one is actually high jumping at college and is jumping 7'2, and he is only 5'11.
The second Christopherian encounter deals with our pre-game routine. I always spend the night before the game using visualization techniques to make it realistic for that player. They are supposed to visualize last second shots, crowd noise, set plays, free throw pressure, etc. with the hope that when they get in those crucial situations they will have felt like they have been there before.
Hi jerry...I was always impressed with basketball cybernetics...Stan Kellner came up here one time to Birchwood and actually did visualization with some players and it was astonishing...Don would be able to tell you about the Cds we got that we asked kids to use the night before ...I am a believer...bs
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