Ways to Demonstrate Mastery

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Ways to Demonstrate Mastery

• Instead of everyone taking the same test or
  completing the same activity it is much more fun
  to allow students to use their 7 intelligences to
  show mastery
• This will engage them in a way that makes them
  want to do their best
• The other students will learn more than they ever
  would from a book as they see how each person
  interpreted the information.

2
Linguistic Students

• Write plays, movie scripts, puppet shows,
  television programs, or develop crossword puzzles
  to demonstrate mastery.

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Logical Students

• Let these students look for patterns, find
  categories in the subject matter, describe
  relationships.
• (For example- Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S.
  Grant led parallel lives)
• These are the students that would love to do
  experiments in Science.

4
Bodily Kinesthetic Students

• Let these students touch and feel as many things
  as possible. When testing for mastery let them
  build dioramas, create a dance interpretation or
  a game that represents what they learned.
• They can still write about their journey- but
  give them the outlet for bodily kinesthetic as
  well.

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Spatial Students

• L et these students draw, paint, sculpt a product
  to depict what they learned. Let them create the
  Battle of Gettysburg with Legos. Let them create
  a maze game that uses flash cards with the
  questions. These are the students that can look
  at those pictures of gears and tell you which peg
  will turn when the gear goes left.

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Musical Students

• These are usually your auditory learners- Let
  these students tell stories, write songs, or tell
  a story through interpretative drumming. These
  are the students that can tell you verbatim what
  you said on Tuesday at 917 a.m.

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Interpersonal Students

• Let these students teach a lesson they develop to
  the class. These are the students that would
  love the challenge of developing a PowerPoint
  story about the topic and presenting it to the
  class. Guess what most teachers rank high in
  this category. ?

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Intrapersonal Students

• These are the students who are shy so they wont
  want to stand up in front of the class and give a
  lecture on the trials and tribulations of the
  depression era as it relates to the octogenarians
  who hoard money in the current century. These
  are the students who would be happy to take the
  multiple choice test. However, these are also
  the very students who are self-motivated and
  could self-direct their own learning if given the
  opportunity.