The Personally Intelligent Teacher
Learn and Apply a Model for Developing Personal Intelligence
Course Outline
Course Description
The Personally Intelligent Teacher is a course designed to teach teachers about the interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences. The Personally Intelligent Teacher course is based on the theoretical foundations of William James and Functional Psychology and Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences, specifically the personal intelligences.The model was developed from a research project at the University of Southern California in 1985. The project resulted in the development of an elementary and secondary curriculum to teach and develop personal intelligence in a classroom setting. The course adapts this curriculum to teach teachers how to recognize dynamics of the personality, how they apply to various aspects of personal intelligence and how to apply those dynamics in the classroom to enhance performance of themselves and their students.
Objectives
- Compare learning theories as a historical basis for this course.
- Create an operational definition of multiple intelligences.
- Apply the tenants of multiple intelligence theory in the classroom.
- Assess personal strengths in regards to multiple intelligence theory.
- Compare working definitions of the personal intelligences.
- Analyze how the personal intelligences can help develop the master teacher.
- Implement the steps towards creating the classroom climate that supports personal performance.
- Assess how fear affects behavior change.
- Demonstrate how enthusiasm affects performance in the classroom.
- Compare the five Personal Intelligence skills and abilities.
- Assess how the dynamics relate to Personal Intelligence.
- Assess the five dynamics by looking at strengths and weaknesses
- Analyze the importance of expression and interpersonal intelligence.
- Compare and contrast weak and strong expressive behaviors and styles.
- Deduce how a teacher’s expressive style affects performance in the classroom.
- Enhance and encourage the use of different expressive style for students.
- Define the Activity Dynamic.
- Compare and contrast strong and weak activity styles.
- Determine effective ways of using activity.
- Implement methods to develop your own style.
- Enhance a strong activity style for yourself.
- Develop activity styles in students.
- Examine the importance of clarity and personal intelligence.
- Assess weak and strong clarity behaviors and styles.
- Analyze how a teacher’s clarity style affects performance in the classroom.
- Enhance and encourage the use of different clarity style for students.
- Analyze the relationship between feeling and intrapersonal intelligence.
- Assess weak and strong feeling behaviors and styles.
- Assess how a teacher’s feeling style affects performance in the classroom.
- Validate the concept of Emotional Intelligence.
- Explain the relationship between contact and personal intelligence.
- Assess weak and strong contact behaviors and styles.
- Analyze how a teacher’s contact style affects performance in the classroom.
- Enhance and encourage the use of different contact style for students.
- Apply a classroom expression activity.
- Develop a personal action plan to increase your use of personal intelligence skills in your life (Portfolio).
- State ways that you can include the ideas from this course into your classroom (Lesson Plans).
- Demonstrate how you can make changes in your own personality dynamics (Portfolio).
- Enhance and encourage the use of different contact style for students (Lesson Plans).
- Describe how you will be one year from now as if you have already accomplished your goals (Portfolio).
Curriculum Design & Time Requirements
Participants will conduct an assessment of personal dynamics in their classroom and design lessons that encourage the use of different intelligences. The Personally Intelligent Teacher is a 3 credit graduate level or forty-five hour professional development course taught on weekends or over five full days.Course Materials
The text is 7 Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. In addition to the course text, students will receive supplemental material.Session Outline
Session 1: Introduction & OverviewContents:
- Understand the purpose of The Personally Intelligent Teacher course
- Become aware of the course objectives
- Learn an overview of the course content
- Understand course guidelines
- Become familiar with the course structure
- Set a personal goal by expressing it using a positive nickname
- Characteristics of inspiring teachers
- Homework assignment
Session 2: Creating a Climate that Supports Performance
Contents:
- Learn the qualities of peak performers
- Learn what stops us from achieving our goals
- Understand how to create an atmosphere of enthusiasm in the classroom
- Become familiar with the concept of the "Home Court Advantage"
- Understand an operational definition of multiple intelligences
- Understand the application of multiple intelligence theory in the classroom
- Learn working definitions of the personal intelligences
- Learn how enthusiasm can effect teacher perception by students
Session 3: Personal Intelligence and the 5 Personality Dynamics
Contents:
- Get to know each other
- Understand how the personal intelligences relate to the dynamics of the personality
- Learn about personality styles
- Understand personal intelligence strengths
- Learn how to become more resilient
- Understand the dynamic of expression and communication
- Learn how to exercise their dynamic of expression
- Make an introduction of another student to the class
Session 4: The Dynamic of Activity and Taking Action in Life
Contents:
- Learn the definition of the "Dynamic of Activity"
- Learn strong and weak activity styles
- Understand effective ways of using "Activity"
- Understanding our own style and learning how to develop it
- Learn to enhance a strong activity style for yourself
- Learning to develop activity styles in students
Session 5: The Dynamic of Clarity and Self-Awareness
Contents:
- Understand the importance of clarity and personal intelligence
- Identify and assess weak and strong clarity behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's clarity affects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different clarity styles for students
- Learn the concept of "Asleep", "Awake", and "Aware"
- Learn and apply a classroom expression activity
Session 6: The Dynamic of Feeling and Human Emotion
Contents:
- Understand the importance of feeling and intrapersonal intelligence
- Identify and assess weak and strong feeling behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's feeling style affects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different feeling styles for students
- Learn the concept of Emotional Intelligence
- Learn to enhance and encourage the use of different feeling styles for students
Session 7: The Dynamic of Contact and Human Connectedness
Contents:
- Understand the importance of contact and personal intelligence
- Identify and assess weak and strong contact behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's contact style affects performance in the classroom
- Enhance and encourage the use of different contact styles for students
- Learn how to maintain relationships
Session 8: Planning Group Integration Project
Contents:
- Learn how to work as a team
- Identify the qualities of a "Home Court Teacher"
- Identify the qualities of a "Home Court Classroom"
- Share ideas on how to teach to the personal intelligences
- Begin designing lesson plans based on teaching to the personal intelligences
Session 9: Presenting Group Integration Project
Contents:
- Learn to share positive experiences with others
- Present personal intelligence lessons
- Brainstorm a list of ideas to teach to the personal intelligences in the classroom
- Brainstorm a list of ideas that can be done to strengthen their own personal intelligence
Session 10: The Personally Intelligent Teacher
Contents:
- Study for and take the Final Exam
- Understand their strengths as a personally intelligent teacher
- Understand how the "Home Court Advantage" has worked in their life
- Share an example of personal excellence
- Determine a personal goal the future
- Closure
- Evaluations
Grading
Grade Requirements for an "A"
- Attend class sessions and participate in class and group discussion.You will have class assignments to turn in. In the following assignments you will need copies of:
- Inside Me PoemLife MovieDear Teacher Letter
- Group Lesson Plan
- You will be responsible for preparing a lesson or activity with a group of other students in this class that you think enhances the personal intelligence of students. Your group will present this lesson or activity to the rest of the class.You can research at least three articles of your choice on personal intelligence and write a two-page paper on what learning and thoughts you had regarding the information presented or you can write a two page paper on what you can do to create the home court advantage in your classroom and life.
- Complete the final exam.
Grade Requirements for an "B"
- Attend class sessions and participate in class and group discussion.You will have class assignments to turn in. The following assignments you will need copies of:
- Inside Me PoemLife MovieDear Teacher Letter
- Group Lesson Plan
- You will be responsible for preparing a lesson or activity with a group of other students in this class that you think enhances the personal intelligence of students. Your group will present this lesson or activity to the rest of the class.
- Complete the final exam.
