Research on Intelligence
In 1938 Louis Leon Thurston suggested that there were seven primary mental abilities that establish intelligence. They included associative memory, number facility, perceptual speed, reasoning, spatial visualization, verbal comprehension, and word fluency. Howard in 1983 Gardner expanded on the work of Thurston, he outlined seven major types of intelligences, which included linguistic, mathematical-logical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal and natural intelligence.
Today, intelligence is described as the ability to recognize and adapt to the environment using intrinsic capacity and learned information (Ruhl, 2020). Some instructional approaches I've noticed that are used to teach gifted students today in classroom are; differentiated instruction, depth and complexity icons, and blooms taxonomy.
Today, intelligence is described as the ability to recognize and adapt to the environment using intrinsic capacity and learned information (Ruhl, 2020). Some instructional approaches I've noticed that are used to teach gifted students today in classroom are; differentiated instruction, depth and complexity icons, and blooms taxonomy.
Pygmalion Effect
I find it really important for educators to have positive expectations for students because of the affects their opinions have on their students. I learned that teachers should have positive expectations for all students, instead of selected students. It doesn't matter how knowledgeable a student is in the beginning of the year, as long as teachers have high expectations for them they are very likely to have high educational performances. Additionally, I've noticed the four factors that educators show when they have students in their class who they show favoritism towards but never realized that pattern that occurred. These are climate, input, response to material, and feedback. Educators should be showing equal treatment to all students even when some students are more gifted then others.