How to Prevent Academic Failure and Misbehavior
By Matthew Lynch
(Bzine.com)
[excerpted]
During my second year of teaching, I had a student in my Social Studies class who tried her best but just couldn’t pass my quizzes or tests. My job was not to be complacent with her performance but to help lift her to the next level. I decided to try Gardner’s Eight Multiple Intelligences. This student turned out to be an Interpersonal (leader) learner. She loved to work with her classmates on various tasks. To tap into this talent, I provided extra opportunities for her to work in cooperative learning groups, and she was usually elected the leader of any given group because of her keen interpersonal skills.
As a result, she began to succeed academically in my class and ended the semester with an A. Many factors aided her ascension into the next level of academic achievement, but the most important factor was the faith I had in her and…more
