Chapter 3 Reflection

In Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence the area that I feel is my area of strength is Intrapersonal Intelligence. which is to have an understanding of yourself, your capabilities, preferences and deficiencies. I have a good understanding of myself, especially what my capabilities and preferences are.

Many times though I tend to distrust my capabilities and focus more on my deficiencies. An example would be when I was a substitute teacher in Naples, Italy.  I loved the job, I knew that I could preform it well, and that I was capable of doing it. There were some teachers that I preferred to work for  and others not (especially one in particular).due to their disorganization in the classroom. This is  not to say that this teacher was not a good teacher, he was, I felt, in understanding myself that I could not feel capable of doing a good job in th classroom. I felt that if they were organized then I was capable of preforming the job that was set out for me to. My deficiencies were that a disorganized teacher would lead me (as much as I tried not to) to a not well preformed. Now, I am not saying that it was the lack of the teachers disorganization that was at fault but it did contribute to my deficiencies. In this case I had an understanding of my capabilities and what my deficiencies were.

Also, being asked to substitute half a semester for Spanish, give instruction and grading final exams I had the understanding of myself that I knew that I was capable to doing the job. I knew what my preferences were and I used those strengths  to teach my students.