Grundtvig Partnership ProjectsMultiple Intelligence & Parents Education Project

IASI Meeting 25th April 2013

John Mc Loughlin (Director of Adult Education/European Projects)

Anne Jennings (Project Support Manager)

Galway Technical InstituteIreland

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 resultsCreation of Spreadsheet document to record findingsMeeting 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.

MI - Research AnalysisIreland (Sample 12 Parents)

12

Gender of Parent

Male

Female

Parent Age Breakdown

2

4

4

4

Parent Age

<2525-3536-4546-55

Level of Education of Parents

Primary

College

Lower Sec.

University

Upper Sec.

Postgrad

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3

Level of Education

Level of Education

Residence of Parents

Urban Semi Urb Rural0

2

4

6

8

10

12

Residence

Residence

Number of Children assessed

1 2 3 More than 30

0.5

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

3 3 3 3

No. Children

No. Children

Age Breakdown of groups

4

4

4

Age of Child

Age 6-9Age 10-12Age 13-16

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