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Teach English in Huangcheng Zhen - Zibo Shi

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Every child is unique. One cannot say someone is stupid just because he or she did not excel in one field. Imagine a classroom filled with 30 students or more. Among these students, there would be someone who always tops the essay test, and another one who slays problem solving quizzes, and someone who doesn’t do well with cognitive competition but would impress their classmates with their dance or singing performance. A classroom would always be filled with learners having different needs and learning abilities. Having a set of diverse learners in the classroom, a capable teacher must understand and implement different teaching strategies that would suit the learners’ needs, strengths and interests. It’s a challenge for each and every teacher to broaden their perspective on approaching these learners. It’s a matter of how well the teacher works as a facilitator of learning. To be able to effectively facilitate learning, a teacher must first recognise the differences among the learners. There are different factors that contribute on how the students learn. According to the theory of Multiple Intelligence by Howard Gardner, there are 8 different types of intelligences: Linguistic intelligence, Logical-mathematical intelligence, Spatial intelligence, Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence, Musical intelligence, Interpersonal intelligence, Intrapersonal intelligence, and Naturalist intelligence. A teacher should not think of all the learners as well-competent on cognitive domain, because they may not be able to do something right on one field, but they may excel on a different one. It is important to consider how they learn because it is the key factor in facilitating effective learning. A learner with spatial intelligence learn by his visual sense--- a teacher could use pictures, diagrams, images, or videos in helping them stimulate them to think. Bodily-kinesthetic intelligent students tend to perform well when they’re able to move around; thus, a teacher can help these students by letting them experience things firsthand. Many of the students would lose their interest halfway during class hours if the teacher in front would spend it with just pure lecture and discussions. That would bore the students and lead to poor learning and retention of the topic. Formulating the lesson plan with objectives that include the three learning domains --- cognitive, affective and psychomotor would help the teacher to include the essential parts of learning experience. Also, one great way of teaching without depriving the poor- performing students of learning is the usage of Differentiated Instructions (DI). The teacher could group the students according to their specialty; and the teacher could let them perform the given topic on how they want it to—the learners could do singing (Musical Intelligence), group reporting (Logical- mathematical Intelligence), spoken poetry (Linguistic Intelligence), or through dance (Bodily- Kinesthetic Intelligence). This way, it would not focus solely on the high-performing group in the class; the teacher could let all the students shine with their own and preferred way of learning. Despite the differences, whether cultural or religion, and varying learning abilities (Multiple Intelligences), a student can excel and can learn with the right guidance of the teacher. Education must cater all. No one should be left behind.


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