Katerina Baitinger has spent her adult life in academia, and the
experience has convinced her that the nation’s higher education system is in
need of an overhaul.
Katerina Baitinger understands that university professors have a
unique challenge when it comes to teaching a diverse group of individuals.
Simply put, it is that people have different kinds of intelligence and
different styles of learning. Unfortunately, education has typically been
designed as a “one size fits all” system, and the result has been students who
don’t learn.
Katerina Baitinger was inspired early on by the work of a
developmental psychologist named Howard Gardner. Dr. Gardner, Katerina
Baitinger wrote, “discovered that human beings have ‘Multiple Intelligences,’”
the notion that intelligence is not a single ability. “At first, Gardner clearly documented
seven multiple intelligences which learners may utilize to gain knowledge,” Katerina Baitinger went
on. Gardner
then added two more.
Katerina Baitinger has since spent a lot of time researching multiple
intelligence. Essentially, she has concluded that there are different kinds of
intelligence, such as: bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, interpersonal,
intrapersonal, logical-mathematical intelligence, linguistic, and several
others. In order to have an effective classroom that appeals to all students,
it is important to be able to appeal to all of these different kinds of
intelligences, or, at least, as many as possible.
The existence of multiple intelligences is why Katerina Baitinger
opposes standardized testing as a way to measure intelligence. Due to the
prevalence of different intelligences, there are certain minds that will simply
perform better at standardized tests naturally, as compared to others. This,
Katerina Baitiner argues, means standardized testing is unreliable.
Katerina Baitinger' writings on the subject have included The Use of Multiple Intelligence, Humor, and
Technology in the College Composition Classroom: A Practical Approach; and Using Multiple Intelligences to Engage Adult
Learners in the Writing/ESL Classroom.
With this knowledge about multiple intelligences, Katerina Baitinger
can help better calibrate dissemination of knowledge to a diversity of
students.
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