For this blog it really took me a long time to write it. For one I can't hardly remember what we did in class and two it was a pretty short one so please bear with me.

On Tuesday it was pretty nasty out and we had a lot of perilous weather going on so hopefully everyone made it home alright. In class Silas and Allie lead the way with the discussion about facilitation. We talked about a lot of good points including different types of intelligence, learning styles, and teaching methods. All of these are very important when it comes to being a facilitator. During class we talked about how intelligence is related to learning. There are different types of intelligence and although it does have to do with how smart you are, it also has to do with your capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. There are eight different types of intelligence which are Bodily/kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical/mathematical, Musical/rhythmic, Naturalist/adventurer, Verbal/linguistic, and Visual/spatial. All of these make for different types of people and different types of learning.

Intelligence is the link to learning styles. During class we briefly talked about the different learning style that people have. Some people learning more visually than verbally. Others may be more hands on type of people. No matter the intelligence or the learning style, it is our job as facilitators to incorporate a lesson plan or in our teaching style to be able to connect to our students in the correct way so that they learn the material and know what it is that is expected and wanted out of them.

A good example of how the Hixson program is helping us with our facilitating skill is these blogs. While they may seem dumb and time consuming if you get right down to it these blogs not only make us step back and look at the material we learned for the week and what it means to us as future mentors, but it also is helping us at the same time with our communication skills in writing. This is a HUGE thing because not only will we most likely be in contact with our mentees by email, but you use writing skills in so many other places that it is a good tool to have in your arsenal. So I hope everyone does the best they can on these things because it will only help you in the long run. See everyone on Tuesday! Out