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For a high-school student, the best time is the three-month summer vacation. It is so awaited that once it comes, children completely forget the word “school” and enjoy the free time as much as they can. Unfortunately, the consequences after this three month vacation strongly affects the student test achievements in a negative way. The problem is being discusses for years and there are not any permanent solutions yet, but there are many proven facts, which indicate that when children are outside…

2.1.3 The Use of MI Theory in Education Since Gardner proposed his Multiple Intelligences Theory in his book, Frames of Mind in 1983, a great majority of educators have been applying it in education. They have considered the idea of multiple intelligences as a ‘powerful medicine’ for the shortcomings that are existent in the educational system. Whether they used it as a teaching approach, method or strategy or as an assessment tool, they agreed on that instruction should be tailored according to…

Working with Others After taking the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and learned profoundly about my weaknesses and strengths. I realized that to have a harmonic relationship with the other temperaments, I need to improve in my weaknesses. Some of the things I must improve is in my communication skills, shyness as well as my inflexibility. What I liked about the Keirsey assessment unlike other ones I did in the past, was their constructive feedback when most of other tools focus only on the positives…

How are you doing? I know you must be surprised to see a letter from me because we haven’t had much contact since I graduated from middle school. Do you still remember me, the conceited student who appeared to be so bored of your class but enjoyed talking with his neighbors even sitting in the front roll? Admittedly, I had to apologize for being a troublemaker who always made your class noisy, but thank you for your tolerance and patience, I have gradually become more well-mannered and learned…

Gardner (1983) suggests the existence of eight relatively autonomous, but interdependent, intelligences rather than just one single construct of intelligence. In Gardner's (1983) point of view, intelligence is a combination of different abilities; he defines intelligence as “the ability to solve problems or fashion products that are of consequence in a particular cultural setting or community” (Gardner 1993, p.15). Accordingly, he classified human intelligence into linguistic,…