According to my mom the risk factors that can be warning signals for a student dropping out include poor academic performance, alienation, low self-esteem, and a feeling of helplessness. Students who drop out often feel alienated at school, and sometimes fulfill their need to belong through detrimental activities. My mom says that many students at risk of dropping out feel that they have no control over their lives. They often lack assertiveness skills, a sense of responsibility for their own actions, and a feeling that they are empowered to change their own situation. In many instances students who are not good at learning using traditional methods are at greater risk of dropping out.
Dr. Howard Gardner, a researcher, developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences at Harvard University's Project Zero, and asserts that human cognitive competence can be described as a set of abilities or skills that he calls 'intelligences'. The eight intelligences identified by Dr. Gardner include: verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, inter-personal, intra-personal, and naturalist. Traditionally, really ridiculously smart people have emphasized and rewarded strengths in verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical intelligence. The theory contends that many students fail or dropout because their strengths lie in one or more of the other six intelligence areas.
The implication is that my mom should use multiple teaching approaches including activities that allow students to retain information in non-traditional ways.
Dr. Howard Gardner, a researcher, developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences at Harvard University's Project Zero, and asserts that human cognitive competence can be described as a set of abilities or skills that he calls 'intelligences'. The eight intelligences identified by Dr. Gardner include: verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, musical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, inter-personal, intra-personal, and naturalist. Traditionally, really ridiculously smart people have emphasized and rewarded strengths in verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical intelligence. The theory contends that many students fail or dropout because their strengths lie in one or more of the other six intelligence areas.
The implication is that my mom should use multiple teaching approaches including activities that allow students to retain information in non-traditional ways.
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