Week 4 - Intelligence

Lily Bueno and I read and discussed this week’s questions. We talked a lot about Emotional Intelligence and how it is so important. Four ways we would promote emotional intelligence are: provide peer interaction opportunities; create opportunities to talk about positive and negative feelings; help students recognize emotions others are feeling; class meetings .As for the intelligence theories, we could not agree which one would be more useful to us as a teacher; because we think both can be used positively in a classroom. In a classroom with over 20 children, we will have children that learn differently, ones will learn as they interact their abilities in activities (Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence). And others will learn, as the Sternberg’s Theory of Successful Intelligence suggests, according to the goals they have established. We discussed about the IQ test and decided that there is not much use in it. We think that a child can accomplish anything she wants whether she gets a high or low score. A child’s intelligence should not be determined by a single test score.