The Weekly Column - Article 7, April 2000. By Michael Berman Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, according to Howard Gardner, entails the potential of using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems or fashion products. As motion activates emotion, catering for the bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence type in class engages positive feelings in learners and facilitates better retrieval.
Research indicates that the optimal time on task is chronological age plus one or two.
So for ten year-olds the optimal time would be eleven or twelve minutes and for a class of young adults it would be approximately twenty minutes. Introducing some form of physical activity at this point in the lesson will help to renew the oxygen supply to the brain and re-focus the attention of the learners. The use of educational kinesiology or brain gym is just one of many options available to us to cater for those students who learn through movement. Everybody stand up please. Everybody stand up please.