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After reading Howard Gardner's book, Five Minds for the Future, there are several ideas I plan on implementing in order to continue developing each of the minds. More specifically I plan on working to develop the minds of my students, and hopefully my mind develops in the process. Despite being vastly different on the surface, Gardner's five minds (Synthesizing, Disciplined, Ethical , Creating, and Respectful) are closely intertwined in the classroom.
First up is the synthesizing mind. I would like to transform more of my assessments from traditional tests to projects. Gardner mentions projects and themed curriculum as being two ways to employ the synthesizing mind. This would be an easy way to begin developing my students' minds as well as exercising my own.
Second is the disciplined mind. I believe Google Classroom is one ideal tool for developing discipline. Gardner notes, "we acknowledge the importance of science and technology but do not teach scientific ways of thinking", and while I'm merely an English teacher, I feel it is imperative to teach my students disciplined ways of thinking. Encouraging my students to take responsibility for their learning through the use of Google Classroom is one effective way of practicing this.
Next is the ethical mind. On page 19 of his book, Gardner stated, "Individuals without ethics will yield a world devoid of decent workers and responsible citizens: none of us will want to live on that desolate planet". For this mind, I would like to utilize Google's collaboration and editing features as often as possible. If my students are working to help their fellow classmates improve, they will be fulfilling the ethical mind by practicing serving the greater good and going beyond mere self-interest.
For the creating mind, I would like to use more applications like FlipGrid that allow students to fulfill Gardner's picture of the creating mind: a mind that goes beyond existing knowledge and synthesis to develop new questions and pose new solutions. FlipGrid and similar technology provide the blank slate and the tools that will allow students to employ this mind.
Finally, we have the respectful mind. For this one, I would definitely like to continue practicing activities such as Socratic Seminars with my students. It will be activities like these that help to teach our students how we relate, how we think, and how to value differences among us. All of these are described by Gardner as pillars of the respectful mind.
Reference:
Gardner, H. (2008). Five Minds for the Future. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press
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After reading Howard Gardner's book, Five Minds for the Future, there are several ideas I plan on implementing in order to continue developing each of the minds. More specifically I plan on working to develop the minds of my students, and hopefully my mind develops in the process. Despite being vastly different on the surface, Gardner's five minds (Synthesizing, Disciplined, Ethical , Creating, and Respectful) are closely intertwined in the classroom.
First up is the synthesizing mind. I would like to transform more of my assessments from traditional tests to projects. Gardner mentions projects and themed curriculum as being two ways to employ the synthesizing mind. This would be an easy way to begin developing my students' minds as well as exercising my own.
Second is the disciplined mind. I believe Google Classroom is one ideal tool for developing discipline. Gardner notes, "we acknowledge the importance of science and technology but do not teach scientific ways of thinking", and while I'm merely an English teacher, I feel it is imperative to teach my students disciplined ways of thinking. Encouraging my students to take responsibility for their learning through the use of Google Classroom is one effective way of practicing this.
Next is the ethical mind. On page 19 of his book, Gardner stated, "Individuals without ethics will yield a world devoid of decent workers and responsible citizens: none of us will want to live on that desolate planet". For this mind, I would like to utilize Google's collaboration and editing features as often as possible. If my students are working to help their fellow classmates improve, they will be fulfilling the ethical mind by practicing serving the greater good and going beyond mere self-interest.
For the creating mind, I would like to use more applications like FlipGrid that allow students to fulfill Gardner's picture of the creating mind: a mind that goes beyond existing knowledge and synthesis to develop new questions and pose new solutions. FlipGrid and similar technology provide the blank slate and the tools that will allow students to employ this mind.
Finally, we have the respectful mind. For this one, I would definitely like to continue practicing activities such as Socratic Seminars with my students. It will be activities like these that help to teach our students how we relate, how we think, and how to value differences among us. All of these are described by Gardner as pillars of the respectful mind.
Reference:
Gardner, H. (2008). Five Minds for the Future. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press
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