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Grundtvig Partnership Projects Multiple Intelligence & Parents Education Project IASI Meeting 25 th April 2013. John Mc Lo ughlin (Director of Adult Education/European Projects) Anne Jennings (Project Support Manager) Galway Technical Institute Ireland www.gti.ie.
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Grundtvig Partnership ProjectsMultiple Intelligence &Parents Education ProjectIASI Meeting 25th April 2013 John Mc Loughlin (Director of Adult Education/European Projects) Anne Jennings (Project Support Manager) Galway Technical Institute Ireland www.gti.ie
Galway Technical Institute • Largest Further Education College in West of Ireland • Teaching Staff = 65 • Full-time Further Education students = 1250 • Part-time students on certified and non-certified programmes = 1400 • School of Music = 300
EU Projects • LDV – Initial Vocational Training = 230 students to 8 countries • LDV – VETPro = 20 Teaching Staff to three countries • Grundtvig - MI • Transfer of Innovation – Moving Make it Simple • Partnership – Careers of the Future
Activities • Focus on project team • Geraldine, Alison, John, Anne • Design of worksheet content for use – edited and uploaded • Evaluating worksheet content for use
Activities/Outcomes • Awareness was raised about the project in the college. (Emails to Students/Teachers) • Meetings and minutes taken to record project progress.
Activities/Outcomes • Selection of target groups / client profile to test questionnaire • 3 groups identified 6-9 years / 10 – 12 years / 13 – 16 years • Meeting with Parents to disseminate information on project • Distributed material to various age groups involved (Monday 8th April) • Agreed on a deadline to get results of questionnaire back to GTI (Friday 19th April)
Activities/Outcomes Data analysis and collation on questionnaire results Creation of Spreadsheet document to record findings Meeting to report on events to date
Results of Questionnaires and Work completed with groups • In general, all work was attempted and completed by all client groups. • Some groups found the work more challenging than others • Comprehension of the assigned work was difficult for younger children but very interesting to get results. • Older children managed the tasks well.
Motivation Level Achieved • All parents tested 7 worksheets • On average 2-3 activities were tested on each child (Age 6-9) • Parent 1 felt there was a high level of motivation for Linguistic and Interpersonal. Their child was fairly motivated by the other five activities • Parent 2 felt there was a high level of motivation for all activities except Interpersonal • Parent 3 felt there was a high level of motivation for Linguistic, Visual, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal. • Parent 4 felt there was a high level of motivation for all intelligences
Motivation Level Achieved (Age 10-12) • Parent 1 felt there was a high level of motivation for Linguistic, Maths, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal. Less motivation for the others • Parent 2 felt there was a high level of motivation for maths, musical, bodily, intrapersonal. The others less so. • Parent 3 felt there was a high level of motivation for musical. Little for Maths, bodily and interpersonal • Parent 4 felt there was a high level of motivation for all. (Age 13-16) • Parent 1 felt there was a high level of motivation for maths, Little for the rest • Parent 2 felt there was a high level for maths, bodily, interpersonal, and intrapersonal • Parent 3 felt there was high level of motivation for all intelligences • Parent 4 felt there was a high level of motivation for all intelligences
Degree of Difficulty • Not all parents found the activities easy to complete. • No parent found them too short. • Some found the work clear, amusing and substantial. • All stated that they found it time consuming
Child’s own Awareness of MI • All 12 parents agreed that their children improved awareness of their own intelligences except for 2.
Quality of Improved Relationships with parents • 10 out of 12 parents felt that these activities improved relationships with their child significantly.
Awareness of Improved MI • All parents believed that these activities contributed to their understanding of MI
What’s Next? • Review of the worksheets evaluation • Preparation for the final meeting in Denmark