Good morning
It is November 4th, and here in Canada it is Movember - the month where we remember men's health issue.  It is a shame we have to make a point of designating a specific month to the issue. Let us also remember Remembrance Day - remembering all those who fought for a more peaceful world, yesterday, today and in the future.

On to today's discussion. For the next few postings I am going to talk about the Multiple Intelligences.  We all have strengths in our learning processes.  This does not give the student an excuse to not become better in all areas, it is just helps us as parents, teachers and students to have a better understanding on why we are not always as strong in certain areas as other people are.  An example - I can not draw, and probability never will be able to but boy can two of my girls draw - one of them does the art work for my books.  On the other hand I am very good in the world of logical - mathematical intelligence, it just makes sense to me.

There are seven different identified intelligences.  One is not better then another, and remember that these postings are here only to help us better understand our learning styles and processes.  The idea here is simply to show which form of intelligence is strongest for you, compared to the other intelligences.

The first intelligences  we are going to examine is that of verbal-linguistic. 
     Verbal-linguistic intelligence is where the student finds reading, writing, listening and speaking the easier areas of school work.  They enjoy doing this kind of activity more then the other areas.  These students would rather curl up with a book then play sports.  For the extra curricular they enjoy the being involved with
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     They tend to do fairly well in school as the verbal (whether written or spoken) is our normal form of communication is the classroom.  These people are sensitive to the sounds and meanings of words and typically very good at decoding words.  Due to this these students are seen as being very smart, because school task and tests tend to emphasize this form of communication.  This can confuse parent and student when the other marks are not as high.
     The kind of activities that this  student would enjoy and could use for assignments would be such things as giving oral presentations, create a newspaper about the assignment, develop a debate about the issue.

Next day we will examine the logical - mathematical intelligence.

Till next time.