Brain Imagery Supports the Idea of Diverse Intelligences

Parts of the brain involved in reading, math, music, and personal relationships are different -- larger or smaller, more or less active -- in every child. These circuits are independent, so even if a child struggles in one domain, like reading, he may have a neurological advantage in others. And perhaps most surprising, scientists have established that learning and practicing certain skills can cause the corresponding brain areas to morph and grow. In other words, by helping a child hone her abilities, you can actually change her brain.

"A lot of people have this intuition that if you're bad at one thing, then you're going to be bad at other things," says Bruce McCandliss, a psychology professor at Vanderbilt University, who has published multiple studies on the subject. "But here's a really strong case that shows these things are dissociated from each other, and we should think of all children as a mosaic of things that they're exceptional at and things they might struggle with."

The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity has shown that teaching can alter the brains of disabled readers. She and colleagues spent a year helping children with reading disabilities build their phonological skills. Afterward, the children's reading improved, and fMRI pictures showed that activity in parts of their brains crucial for reading had jumped.

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takze je definitivne chyba UCITELOV, ak dieta nezvlada predmet, a ucitel ho povazuje za sproste dieta
teda chyba je samozrejme aj v prostredi, v rodicoch, atd.. ale zodpovednost za vzdelanie je na uciteloch, to je ich poslanim, a ak je v tom nejaky problem, tak ONI maju byt iniciatorom zmien a tvorcami navrhov, ako veci zlepsit.