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Reading: learning phases, benefits, and activities for its development
Reading and writing processes are developed from the first years of children’s lives. They are processes that become more complicated as the child grows and require the performance of various parts of his brain. These communicative processes allow the child to express what he thinks, feels, and wishes and transform himself and his social and cultural environment significantly. Reading is a slow and progressive construction process requiring respectful and configured educational intervention. We are not going to expect students to learn what they have not been taught, nor are we going to expect them to know it once and for all. The reading represents a means for learning, the development…
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Visual-spatial Intelligence: Definition, Characteristics, and Activities for its Development
The theory of multiple intelligences emphasizes that all intelligences work together; however, each has its essential component. When we mention the ability to locate ourselves in time and space and perceive our reality, we discuss vital skills in our development. Similarly, by interpreting, making, and applying three-dimensional models to daily life, we use visual-spatial intelligence. From childhood, we are born, and we develop this intelligence as we experience, explore, and discover the world around us. Visual-spatial intelligence is one of the eight intelligences that make up Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. It is important to remember that Gardner defines intelligence as “the ability to solve problems or produce products…
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Naturalistic Intelligence: Definition, Characteristics, and Activities for its Development
We are born with an interest in everything around us from a young age. It is our human nature to explore, learn and discover what we do not know. Therefore, we love to classify and categorize objects’ characteristics and common associate elements. The explained behaviors are associated with naturalistic intelligence, one of the intelligences we develop at the beginning of our lives. We can say that all children are born with a naturalistic intelligence. Little by little, they explore the world, the plants, the animals, and develop it. Naturalistic intelligence is one of the eight intelligences that make up Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. It is important to remember…
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Online educational resources for teachers
The teaching process in the classroom involves a lot of preparation and mastery of the educational scene. As teachers, we develop plans with measurable teaching objectives that are adjusted to the needs of our students. Although many of us have already mastered everything that this process entails, we can make use of resources that facilitate everything that teaching entails on many occasions. Today, thanks to ICTs, many educational resources enable our daily lives in the virtual or face-to-face classroom. Many of these resources are free and accessible. We can find them on the web and test them, in this way we can decide if they meet our expectations or are…
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Musical Intelligence: Definition, Characteristics, and Activities for its Development
Music is part of our lives from the moment we are born. As human beings, we celebrate the most important activities or occasions in our lives with music. Our day-to-day is full of situations that bring up mind memories to identify rhythms and melodies. That is why we do not have to be professional musicians to think about music; we all have musical intelligence. The development of musical intelligence dates back to ancient times, with musical instruments as archaeological evidence. Musical intelligence is one of the eight intelligences that make up Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. It is important to remember that Gardner defines intelligence as “the ability to…
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Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: Definition, Characteristics, and Activities for its Development
The ability to understand logical patterns, organize, and quantify objects is a characteristic that distinguishes humans from other species. It is a constant need for us to search for the meaning of the world around us. Since childhood, we order, reorder, and quantify objects according to their characteristics. The ability to use numbers correctly and reason are essential elements in the field of study and the workplace. Logical-mathematical intelligence allows us to analyze information, seek order, and give meaning to situations to apply it to problems in our daily lives. Next, we will discuss logical-mathematical intelligence and how we can develop it during our lives. The logical-mathematical intelligence is one…
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Assessment Techniques to Facilitate the Teaching-Learning Process
The teaching and learning process consists of a series of elements that include the development of teaching objectives and the assessment of learning. Thanks to the evaluation process, we can know our students’ needs, what material they master or do not master, and how we can help them in their learning process. When talking about evaluation, we must remember that there are several types. These are mentioned and explained below. diagnostic evaluation– Its purpose is to identify the students’ level of knowledge with which a course or unit begins. It can happen at any time during the class. formative assessment– Its purpose is to make decisions regarding the teaching process…
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Educational Apps and Web Pages for Students and Teachers
Information and communication technologies came to stay in the educational world. Our students’ needs and learning styles have been changing generation after generation. In the same way, technology is changing at a faster rate. As teachers, we have the task of being updated with the technological world and pedagogical styles that adjust to the needs of our students. Luckily we have educational apps and resources we can use to improve our teaching and learning experience. The world of technology continues to grow, change, and provide us, more and more, with tools that allow us to teach our classes in different ways. Considering that our students have different intelligences, we must…
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Blended learning: benefits and recommendations for teachers
A new school semester begins and with it new challenges related to the changes that have become more evident since the last year 2020 and the COVID 19 pandemic. Several years ago, educational specialists have been talking about necessary changes in educational processes and methodologies to adapt to the needs of today’s world. Consequently, many universities already have academic degrees that students can complete virtual or hybrid, thanks to the advances in information and communication technologies. However, this past year made the much-talked-about change a daily reality around the world. It was through practice that most of the teachers were able to learn about the integration of a virtual model…
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Educational strategies for students with ADHD
Before using any psycho-pedagogical strategy for the benefit of the student with ADHD, it is important to know that several factors intervene in the teaching-learning process. Among these, the classroom environment is one of the most important. When using beneficial strategies for students with ADHD, the teacher must be aware of the importance of promoting a safe and supportive environment for students. We can take, for example, the typical pedagogical situation in which the subject of a first-year university student who is easily distracted and consequently wants to withdraw from a class is addressed. In this particular case, it is necessary to identify that we must work with the motivation…
