The Personally Intelligent Teacher Online
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
The Personally Intelligent Teacher is a 13 week 3 credit graduate level or sixty hour professional development course taught online. Modules 1 through 8 will be completed one per week. Modules 9 and 10 will be completed over a five-week period so students will have time to revise and complete the final integration project.Hardware & Computer Skill Requirements
Students may use either a Macintosh computer or a PC with Windows 2000 or higher. Students should possess basic word processing skills and have internet access with an active e-mail account. Students also are expected to have a basic knowledge of how to use a Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla Firefox etc.Course Materials
The text is 7 Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. A possible supplemental text is Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner.Session Outline
Session 1: Introduction and OverviewContents:
- Understand course requirements, goals and expectations
- Become familiar with course navigation system
- Historical overview of personal intelligence theory and functionalism
- Develop an understanding of the importance for focusing on the personal intelligences in schools
Session 2: The Theory Of Personal Intelligences
Contents:
- Understand an operational definition of personal intelligence
- Learn to identify interpersonal and intrapersonal behaviors
- Application of personal intelligence theory in the classroom for students
- Learn how the personal intelligences apply to teaching methods for teachers
- Introductions using the personal intelligence model
Session 3: Creating A Classroom Climate That Supports Personal Performance
Contents:
- Learn to create an environment for change in the classroom.
- Identify different stages in classroom group development
- Conditions and skills for increasing student interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence in the classroom
- Learning to coach students on behaviors for classroom success
- Learn how personality images are created
Session 4: Learning About The Different Dynamics Of The Personality
Contents:
- The dynamic of Expression: The ability for people to say what they think and how they feel
- The dynamic of Activity: The ability for people to make things happen and to be active in creating their life
- The dynamic of Clarity: The ability for people to be alert, aware and responsive to themselves and others
- The dynamic of Feeling: The ability for people to experience, express and show their feelings
- The dynamic of Contact: The ability for people to make relationships and friendships and to be able to be close to others
- Learn how to assess strengths and weaknesses of these dynamics
Session 5: The Dynamic of Expression & Communication
Contents:
- Understanding the importance of expression to interpersonal intelligence
- Identify and assess weak and strong expressive behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's expressive style effects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different expressive style for students
- Learn classroom activities that increase student knowledge of expression
Session 6: The Dynamic Of Activity & Taking Action In Life
Contents:
- Understanding the importance of physical movement of the body to personal intelligence
- Identify and assess weak and strong activity behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's activity style effects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different activity styles for students
- Learn classroom activities that increase student knowledge of activity
Session 7: The Dynamic Of Activity Clarity & Self-Awareness
Contents:
- Understanding the importance of clarity to personal intelligence
- Identify and assess weak and strong clarity behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's clarity style effects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different clarity styles for students
- Learn classroom activities that help develop clarity for students
Session 8: The Dynamic of Feeling & Human Emotion
Contents:
- Understanding the importance of feeling and human emotion to personal intelligence
- Identify and assess different feeling states and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's feeling style effects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different feeling styles for students 6
- Learn classroom activities that help develop the ability for students to express feelings and handle the feelings of others appropriately
Session 9: The Dynamic Of Contact & Connectedness
Contents:
- Understanding the importance of contact and connectedness to personal intelligence
- Identify and assess different contact behaviors and styles
- Understanding how a teacher's contact style effects performance in the classroom
- Enhancing and encouraging the use of different contact styles for students
- Learn classroom activities that help develop contact and connectedness for students
- Learn how to create the connected classroom
Session 10: Final Integration Project For Effecting the Personal Intelligences In The Classroom
Contents:
- Identify strategies for maintaining a classroom that supports and continues to develops intrapersonal intelligence
- Design a personal program that supports and continues to develop the teacher's intrapersonal intelligence
- Complete final exam
- Complete course and instructor evaluation
Grading
| Assignment | Points | Grading Scale | |||||||
| Forum Participation | 30 | 100 - 93 | A | ||||||
| Reading And Reviews | 50 | 92 - 85 | B | ||||||
| Final Integration Project | 20 | 84 - 77 | C | ||||||
| Total Points | 100 |
