This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kidzmet for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
I just re-tweeted a quote I found online that I wanted to share with everybody:
"Just as a pre-packaged product is not the ONLY way to cook a dish, nor the ONLY dish we should consume, we cannot continue to think about a pre-packaged standard of intelligence to which we all aspire.
If we all ate the same foods—particularly if they were not our favorites—day in and day out for years, we would most certainly lose our desire to eat."
"I would have liked it on Facebook as well, if only I wasn't abstaining from it for personal reasons, at least for the time being.
Anyway, give it a thought. Especially where our children's learning is concerned, thought not entirely confined to it. We, adults, can benefit from it too. It's a good way to put it, not quite a paradigm shift, but a good model to base our goals on.
I like the vision of the website where I'm getting this from. It says, as we enjoy a variety of food, we must know and discover that there is also an infinite number of ways to prepare each dish and different iterations of ingredient combinations (like intelligence) ultimately creating endless possibilities of cooking a variety of dishes. And as we become grow in this art, our palates develop, we grow, and become masters yielding satisfying outcomes. It becomes a cycle that "feeds" itself, pun unintended.B
But they have a point at Kidzmet. Are you aware of the theory of multiple intelligences? Forgive me if I am quite rusty in this arena (considering that the last time I dabbled in this turf was about a decade ago back when I was a 20-something human development psychologist-slash-child development specialist-slash-curriculum consultant-slash-kindergarten teacher, 40 lbs lighter, vegetarian, and lonely in a relationship for the dogs...not that I hated the job, in fact, I adored it, but as destiny would have it, fate sent my life careening wildly off its axis, ergo, a 180-degree turn, and now I have a fulltime deskjob in a bio research nutraceutical company, I blog, I paint, I cook (and I'm a carnivore though I still love veggie food), I wash dishes, and I'm a 24/7 happy and content wifey)...I digress...
These are the following:
Linguistic Intelligence:
The ability to learn and the capacity to use it in the performance of day-to-day activities including in one’s profession. Children and or adults endowed with this type of intelligence use language as a means to remember information and reproduce it practically. They mostly shine in writing, legal, journalistic, speech writing, training, Teaching/Editing/Translating / Public Relations/ Media Consulting/ copy-writing TV Anchoring to name only a few. (If you are a poet, you are in a higher plane of creativity in this type of intelligence!)
Logical Intelligence:
The ability to detect patterns, scientific temperament, application of logic in terms of cause and effect, performing mathematical calculations with ease and in effect looking for evidences in all the things that govern the performance of activities such as used in Pure Sciences, Engineering, Accountancy, Banking, and Trading
Kinaesthetic Intelligence:
For some individuals their brain works through their body parts in the carrying out of their tasks , controlling the body movements in an agile manner, using the hands and eyes in a skillful manner, and displaying their mental abilities to solve the problems. Individuals with these skills have been shining and children if properly directed would shine in sports, aesthetics, and arts and crafts and in short anything that needs the application of the movements of the body in getting a task accomplished.
Spatial Intelligence:
Such individuals interpret the meaning of images in a recognizable manner, use the patterns of wide space, and could be categorized as creators of physical things through mental mapping. They are naturally made for arts, design and crafts, inventing, fashion including costume designing, architecture including land-scaping and space consulting.
Musical Intelligence:
Uhrm, I wish I had this. They say, musical intelligence is found to run in parallel with linguistic abilities and encompasses within itself the capabilities to compose and perform musical pitches, tones, and rhythms. It is the awareness and appreciation of sound, recognition of patterns in rhythms, understanding the relationship between sound and feelings. Naturally successful breed of the professionals in this area is found in Musical composing and singing, Acoustic Engineering, Voice Coaching, (even Environmental Noise Pollution?)
Interpersonal Intelligence:
These individuals excel in working with and through others. They understand the capacity, the intentions, and the motives that drive the individuals and seek to maximize it through the application of such skills. Their excellence gets demonstrated in HR, Training and Development including communications, Organisational Development including development of leadership qualities, Education, Medical particularly caring and counselling, Training and Development including fostering team work, and Leading Organization including Political Governance
Intra-personal Intelligence:
If interpersonal intelligence involves the capability to understand others, intra-personal could be equated to apply the same to within oneself in understanding self to actualize the maximum in one’s own potential. It is linked with Emotional Intelligence.
So there you go, I lifted that from Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence to help you think outside the box, and shift your paradigm on the concept of intelligence, especially where our kids' learning is concerned. Kids, like us, are born into this world bearing our own unique sets of gifts the potential of which can be maximized with proper training avenues and exposures.
I appreciate the thrust of Kidzmet and I hope that we all take a moment to understand what they propose. They also match the children based on their gifts with the right mentors in order to achieve full potential. In other words, Sushi for Sushi, Pasta for Pasta, and yes, if it's a combination of many as a lot are bound to have, buffet for buffet it is!
If you still don't get the drift, please visit the site. And I also hope you consider their summer enrichment program. Summer is just around the corner, but we still have enough time to prepare for the sake of the little "chefs" in our household. Don't take it, literally, wifey.
