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P arents R esources “I have a friend whose daughter is at Mayville School and she did the MIDAS questionnaire. Her daughter appeared to build a relationship with the computer during the completion of the questionnaire. "**//How did the computer know so much about me, how did it know I sing tunes in my head, how did it know I loved animals?"//** Obviously there are some questions that just rung so true with her, she felt the computer knew her, that she wasn't a freak to sing in her head etc! She really loved been asked questions that nobody had really bothered to ask her before.”

Lucy Fleetham, Aspiro Education Ltd. & mother Carolyn Reed. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> **Being a parent** may be the most challenging job you’ll ever have. Living in a highly competitive world where the emphasis always seems to be on ‘//fixing what is wrong'//, it is easy to get caught up in relentless negativity. After Carolyn heard her daughter describe how happy she was that the computer seemed to know so much about her, Carolyn felt a little guilty and sad that she hadn’t herself noticed those things about her daughter. The MIDAS Profile became a way for the two of them to talk about things that they both took for granted. Important discussions then took place in their family. Plus, Carolyn now had a map of her daughter’s strengths to guide her to find fun, engaging and intellectually stimulating activities for the family to do together.

//Quick links > // **Multiple Intelligences Learning Activities**


 * Linguistic / Kinesthetic / Spatial / Musical / Logic-Math / Intrapersonal / Interpersonal / Naturalist **

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> **Developing the Multiple Intelligences** //"//**Strengths vs. Weaknesses**//"// **R****ECOGNIZE** > Recognize your child's areas of strengths in words and actions > Identify special areas of strength (as well as limitation) > Identify the importance of the child's strengths in careers, school and community > Communicate strengths and difficulties with teachers

**A****PPRECIATE** > Call it an intelligence! > Develop the use of MI language to "unpack your thinking / problem-solving" > Instill self-confidence based on real strengths .... describe actual study strategies. > Touch the passion and open the future potential > Value creative / divergent thinking as well as practical problem solving

**V****ALUE** > Show how strengths can be used to maximize success in school > Show how strengths can be used to create a career > Connect student to role models who share his/her strengths > Create opportunities for public display

**E****NGAGE****-** **Support / Challenge** > Provide challenge to maximize strengths > Nobody's perfect > Build self-confidence via real experience > Translate between intelligences > Instill a sense of hope for the future > Include child in positive community experiences > Promote family-oriented activities where strengths are highlighted > Use strengths to overcome limitations

// Not to over-glorify the individual child, but to develop unique strengths that can be used to create valuable products, provide vital services and solve important problems that are meaningful to family, friends and community. //

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LINGUISTIC Main Features ** : //To think in words and to use language to express and understand complex meanings. Sensitivity to the meaning of words as well as the order among words, their sounds, rhythms, inflections. To reflect on the use of language in everyday life.//**


 * **-> Reading** || - **> Writing** || - **> Speaking** || **-> Convincing -> Listening** ||  ||


 * < **_ books** || **_ selling** || **_ magazines** || **_ explanations** ||
 * **_ stories** || **_ poems** || **_ letters** || **_ persuading** ||
 * **_ speeches** || **_ arguing** || **_ debate** || **_ prose** ||

**Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun:**
 * _ Abraham Lincoln _ Library _ Bookstores _ Books on tape _ Ghost stories**
 * _ Poetry readings _ Plays _"Dead Poets Society" _ Scrabble _ Folk tales & myths**
 * _ William Shakespeare -e.e. cummings -Dr. Suess -Newspapers -Stone Soup**
 * _ Mark Twain -Mr. Rogers -Prairie Home Companion -Rabbit Ears Radio**

**Linguistic Learning Strategies**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: justify;">_ **Make** **up** memorable abbreviations. _ **Make up** an exciting, odd or scary story. _ **Talk about it** into a tape recorder and review it.
 * _ Explain / teach it** to someone else.

**People in Your Community!** //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**..............Where in your community can your child go to exercise Linguistically??** //
 * _ Poet _ Novelist _ Journalist _ Salesperson**
 * _ Editor _ Translator _ Storyteller _ Lawyer**
 * _ Technical writer _ Librarian _ Teacher _ Public Relations**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Exercise Linguistic Skills at Home:**
 * - Make up funny new** name**s for things. - Learn how to** tell **a new joke.**
 * -** Convince **your best friend that your family car can fly to the moon. Record this on tape.**
 * -** Write **a family newspaper of important happenings. -Memorize a line from a** poem **for each new season.**
 * - Memorize a new** prayer. **- Try to** sell **your house to your favorite pet.**
 * - Write the** story **of your life. -** Listen **to scary books on tape.**
 * -** Make up **your own endings to movies -** Read **myths, tall tales and fairy tales out loud before bed.**

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">**KINESTHETIC** Main Features **: //To think in movements and to use the body in skilled and complicated ways for expressive as well as goal-directed activities. It involves a sense of timing and coordination for whole body movement and the hands for manipulating objects.//**

-<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **> Sports -> Dance -> Handcrafts -> Acting -Exercise**
 * _ track _ modern dance _ assembly _ mime _ aerobics**
 * _ baseball _ juggling _ drama _ coordination**
 * _ karate _ folk dance _ dexterity _ comedy _ acrobatics**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun:** _ **"Chariots of Fire"** _ Rudy" **_ Olympics _ little league sports _ circus _ athletic events**
 * -Michael Jordan _ Sports Illustrated _ karate lessons** _ **Wii**
 * -Twister -magic shows -"A League of Their Own" -model building**
 * _ juggling _ charades _ community theater _ dance and tap lessons**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Kinesthetic Learning Strategies**
 * _ Do it 3 times for practice. ****_ Write it large or over and over again** **_ Dramatize it to get a "feel" for it**
 * _ Hold on to it and use gestures. ** **_ Play and move through it step‑by‑step like a mime.** **_ Take "movement" breaks _ Tinker with it, build a model. **
 * _ Explore it with your hands or move through it in imagination.**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**People in Your Community!**
 * _ Athlete _ Manual labor _ Acrobat _ Jockey**
 * _ Actor _ Rodeo rider _ Equestrian _ Coach**
 * _ Sports trainer_ Crafts-person _ Aerobics teacher _ Assembler**
 * _ Magician _ Clown _ Dancer _ Drama coach**

//<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**..................Where in your community can you go to exercise Kinesthetically?** // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Exercise Kinesthetic Skills at Home:**
 * _** Walk **or ride an obstacle course. _ Practice on** balance **beams.**
 * _ Learn to** juggle **or do magic tricks. _** Play **charades.**
 * _ Taking** acting **lessons. _ Read a book on "Body Language" and study how** people move**.**
 * _** Practice **using a hammer or other tools _ Practice reaction time or** coordination **skills. _ Wii**
 * _ Invent new** dance routines**. _ Create** plays and skits **with neighborhood kids.**



<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**VISUAL-SPATIAL** Main Features ** : //To think in pictures and to perceive the visual world accurately. To be able to think in three-dimensions and to transform one's perceptions and re-create visual experience in imagination.//**

drawing sewing driving painting construction boating sculpture assembly using maps
 * -<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> -> Artistic design -- > Crafts and skilled trades -- > Navigation **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun:** Picasso Handyman Magazine Interior Design Modern Architecture museums coloring books paint-by-numbers model building art galleries Legos & Erector Sets puzzles auto shows imagination games movies photography floral arrangement and gardening

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Visual-Spatial Learning Strategies** Demonstrate it //all at once// so you get the Big Picture. Watch, Visualize, Sketch. Create a cartoon, picture book Think of a simile, metaphor or an exaggerated, odd picture. Make notes with different colored pens. Make "Visual Maps" to organize new information. Daydream, make a movie in your mind.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**People in Your Community!** Interior designer Architect Sign painter Navigation Surveyor Mechanic Hair dresser Fashion consultant Pilots Artist Drafting Costume maker Makeup artist Engineers Carpenter Photographer Crafts person Tattoo artist <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//**......................Where in your community can you go to exercise Visual-spatially?**//

- Draw a map of your house, school or neighbor. - Paint a picture of your "dream home." - Use tracing paper to copy pictures. - Make a special Pop-up greeting card. - Design your own tie to wear for your birthday party.- Practice backing up with a bicycle on an obstacle course. - Design a quilt with squares for every month.- Make a cartoon strip showing the story of your life. - Trace your hand or your whole body and write in your favorite things in life. - Put puzzles together - Design an advertisement for your dream life. - Watch a drawing or painting program on TV.
 * Exercise Visual-Spatial Skills at Home:**


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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">**MUSICAL** Main Features**: //To think in sounds, rhythms, melodies and rhymes. To be sensitive to pitch, rhythm, timbre and tone. To be able to recognize, create and reproduce music by using an instrument or the voice. It involves active listening and there is a strong connection between music and emotions.//**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**-> Instrumental -> Vocal -> Composing -> Appreciation** drums **chorus** tunes **active** listening flute **solo** lyrics **critiques** guitar **harmony** arrangements **music studies**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun:** Raffi **Victor Borge** - concerts **karaoke** rock groups **Sesame Street** records, **tapes**, CDs **sing-alongs** concerts **music stores** seasonal or r**eligious songs** church **choir**
 * folk music** Guitar Player **instrument** lessons **caroling**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Musical Learning Strategies** Use Rhyme, Rhythm and Repetition. **Notice how the words sound**. Make a musical beat to it. Make up a song lyric that explains it. **Study with pleasant music, a metronome or with perfect quiet.**
 * Repeat it until you can hear it clearly and it sounds just right.** Sing it to yourself.
 * Say it out loud sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly.** Emphasize the accent or the voice inflections.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**People in Your Community!** Song writer **Recording tech** Promoter **Music critic** //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**.............................Where can your child go in your community to exercise musically?** //
 * Singer** Music teacher **Choir director** Composer
 * Sound engineer** Instrumentalist **Disc jockey** Conductor


 * Exercise Musical Skills at Home:**
 * - Invent new** drumming **patterns. - Play around with a new** instrument**.**
 * - Invent new words to old** songs**. - Memorize** rhymes.
 * -** Sing **along with records and tapes. - Take** voice **lessons.**
 * - Practice** singing and playing **an instrument at the same time. - Learn old** folk songs**.**
 * - Make tape collections of certain kinds of** music**. -** Guitar Hero

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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL Main Features ** : //To think of cause and effect connections and to understand relationships among actions, objects or ideas. To be able to calculate, quantify, consider propositions and perform complex mathematical or logical operations. It involves inductive and deductive reasoning skills as well as critical and creative problem-solving.//**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**--> Mathematics --> Problem-solving --> Strategy --> Investigation --> Organization**
 * statistics** fixing **chess** mysteries **bookkeeping**
 * calculations mechanics Battleship detectives accounting**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun:**
 * - Albert Einstein -** Word Searches **- codes -** Rubics Cube - **experiments**
 * -** Sherlock Holmes **- Chess -** Clue **- murder mysteries -** Agatha Christy
 * - riddles - chess champions - computer clubs - Mensa - science projects**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Logical-math Learning Strategies** Q**uestion,** C**ount and** C**ategorize.** Ask why and how**.** **Explain it step‑by‑step in detail.** Analyze it. **Experiment with it.** Find a pattern that is new or fits**.** **Explore the possibilities.** ‑‑ how, why & what. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**People in Your Community!** Statistician **Book keeper** Engineers **Banker** Lawyer **Inventory control** Researcher **Physician** //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**..............Where in your community can you go to exercise Logical-mathematical thinking?** //
 * Test an answer logically.** **Collect, Compare and Critique Strive to understand**
 * Paralegal** Cryptographer **Pharmacist** Financial **advisor**
 * Chemist** Records clerk **Accountant** Computer Repai**r**


 * Exercise Logical-mathematical skills at Home: **
 * -** Figure **baseball averages. -** Calculate **a restaurant tip.**
 * - Play** chess **or Battleship or Twenty Questions or Clue - Plan a** budget**.**
 * - Learn a new** computer **program. -** Play logic games **and puzzles.**
 * -** Solve **or invent riddles. -** Argue **a case.**


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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">INTERPERSONAL Main Features **: //To think about and understand another person. To have empathy and recognize distinctions among people and to appreciate their perspectives with a sensitivity to their motives, moods and intentions. It involves interacting effectively with one or more people in familiar, casual or working circumstances.//**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **-> Empathy -> Understanding others -> Persuasion -> People Work** sensitivity **attentiveness** arguing **organizing**
 * politeness** concern **selling** community service
 * responsiveness** managing **acting** leading

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun** theater **dress-up** daytime **TV soap opera**s family histories
 * Robin Williams** pretend **super heroes** dolls **drama**
 * social clubs** politics **volunteering** babysitting **historical novels**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Interpersonal Learning Strategies** _ Study in a group, have family discussions. **Understand why it's important to someone else.** _ **Teach it to a friend until she understands it**. Join a team in competition or in cooperation. _ Study with a partner. _ **Create a lesson plan to teach it to someone else**. _ Teach it so even your pet can understand.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**People in Your Community!** Teacher **Child care** Actor **Secretary** Psychologist **Homemaker** Coach **Counselor** Nurse **Salesperson** Mayor **Clergy** //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**.......................Where in your community can you go to exercise Interpersonally?** //
 * Social worke**r Supervisor **Custome**r **services** Receptionist


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Exercise Interpersonal Skills at Home: **
 * -** Understand **another child's way of thinking. - Solve a problem between two people.**
 * - Learn "**conflict resolution**" skills. -** Teach someone **how to do something new.**
 * -** Observe **the other children on the playground and describe each of their** feelings**.**
 * - Practice** listening **without interrupting or giving your opinion. -** Plan **a meeting or a party.**
 * - Watch a TV show without the sound and** describe their feelings**.** -Volunteer **at a nursing home or hospital.**


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<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">INTRAPERSONAL Main Features ** : //To think about and understand one's self. To be aware of your strengths and weaknesses and able to plan effectively to achieve your goals. It involves reflecting on and monitoring both your thoughts and your feelings and effectively regulating them. The ability to monitor your interpersonal relationships and to act with personal efficacy.//**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **-> Reflection -> Thinking about thinking -> Monitor and self correct -> Goal setting** on one's self during math short term wondering while reading while talking long term __on feelings interacting with people while working

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Heroes, Movies, Books and Other Fun:** - **Sigmund Freud** - The Torah - **counseling -** Outward Bound - The Bible - **making life scrap books** - career counseling - **autobiographies**
 * - The Koran** - making family albums - **family history** - meditation

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Intrapersonal Learning Strategies** Ask what you already know about this. **Ask how this agrees or disagrees with your past experiences**. What don't you know, need to know & how to find out. **Work at it alone.** Stop to reflect often about this information. Learn it just for yourself. **Learn to catch when your mind is wandering & bring back to task.**
 * Why is it important for you to know it**. What is your opinion about this information. **Challenge yourself to learn it.**
 * Test yoursel**f. Use your best other skills for memorizing it. **Convince yourself you will be a better person by learning it**.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **People in Your Community!** Minister Engineer Police Counselor Psychologist Philosopher Pilot Teacher

//<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**......................Where in your community can you go to exercise Intrapersonal thinking?** //

**How to Exercise Intrapersonal Skills at Home:**
 * - Write a time line of** your child’s life**. - Evaluate** your skills **and ask someone who knows you for their opinion.**
 * - Keep a** diary**. - Think about a job you would really** like to do **and why.**
 * - Remember when you got very** angry or frustrated **and ask what you could have done to have prevented it.**
 * - Remember a math problem that was hard to** learn and think **what you might do different to master it now.**
 * - Remember a time when you said or did something without thinking and** consider why**.**
 * - Make** future plans**. - Practice listening to negative** self-talk **and changing it.**
 * - Design your own** personal design**. - Design an advertisement for** yourself.

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">**NATURALIST** Main Features: **//To understand the natural world including plants, animals and scientific studies. To be able to recognize and classify individuals, species and ecological relationships. To interact effectively with living creatures and discern patterns of life and natural forces.//**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **--> Understanding Animals --> Working with Plants -- > Science Studies** raising and caring for living things culinary arts horticulture earth science farming taxonomy

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Heroes, Movies, Magazines, Books and Other Fun** - **tracking animals** - ant farms - **raise rabbits** - National Geographic - growing flowers - **train a dog -** explore the woods - **Nature magazine** - **collecting insects** - tropical fish - **Animal Planet** - Discovery

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Naturalistic Learning Strategies** Observe something carefully and identify patterns. **Record and organize data into a system that makes sense.** Discover how it has developed over time and look for growth. **Imagine you are cultivating the knowledge to feed your mind.**
 * Imagine or build a "living model" that shows relationships.** Consider how the information fits into the natural world.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **People in Your Community!** Greenhouse **Gardener** Naturalist **Scientist** Biologist Meteorologist **Botanist** Zoologist **Physicist** Tracker //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**........................Where in your community can your child go to exercise Naturally?** //
 * Animal trainer** Farmer **Fisherman** Hunter **Astronomer**
 * Chef** Forester **Veterinarian** Landscaping **Pet Shop**

- **Keep a chart of** weather **patterns. - Volunteer at an animal shelter.**
 * How to Exercise Naturalist Skills at Home:**
 * - Train a** dog **to obey and do tricks. - Raise and study tropical** fish or birds**.**
 * - Plant a flower** garden**. - Care for and study** houseplants**.**
 * - Raise vegetables. - Study the** animals **in your backyard.**
 * - Conduct a survey of** wildlife **in your neighborhood. - Join a** 4-H Club.

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