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Using Multiple Intelligences to Teach Zambian Children About HIV-AIDS

Module by: Fred Mednick

Summary: Teachers Without Borders' partner organization in Zambia, Project Educate, is working on incorporating the use of song, dance, poetry, brochures, skits, the media, print and electronic to meet the objectives. It will also use local students as volunteers in reaching not only the Mongu community but surrounding areas as well. Here is an example of teacher training curriculum on HIV-AIDS, using Howard Gardner's concepts of "multiple intelligences."

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Author: Mbao Mwiya-Ngula, TWB Member and Director of Project Educate

As part of Project Educate’s HIV/AIDS Initiative, we will launch a campaign designed to help increase levels of awareness about the disease and its effects. Participants will also be provided with basic computer and internet skills training so they make use of technology to acquire more information about the disease. The initiative will incorporates the use of song, dance, poetry, brochures, skits, the media, print and electronic to meet the objectives. It will also use local students as volunteers in reaching not only the Mongu community but surrounding areas as well.

PROJECT EDUCATE'S APPROACH

ELEMENTS

  1. The campaign will go back to basics education people on what HIV/AIDS is
  2. The difference and implications between the two
  3. The importance of knowing their status and voluntary testing and counseling
  4. The resources available to them in the areas of HIV/AIDS
  5. Mother to child transmission
  6. HIV/AIDS, teen and young adults
  7. HIV/AIDS and the community
The initiative incorporates the use of song, dance, poetry, brochures, skits, the media, print and electronic to meet the objectives. It will also use local students as volunteers in reaching not only the Mongu community but surrounding areas as well. The resources available to them in the areas of HIV/AIDS Mother to child transmission HIV/AIDS, teen and young adults HIV/AIDS and the community

Linguistic

  1. Create a HIV/AIDS brochure
  2. Write a play on HIV/AIDS
  3. Create informational sessions on HIV/AIDS

Musical

  1. Create a musical presentation on HIV/AIDS
  2. Ask participants to create song(s) on the subject matter
  3. Share songs that others in other parts of the world have created in the fight against the disease

Interpersonal

  1. Choose participants with this type of intelligence to carry out counseling support for the infected and affected
  2. Engage those with interpersonal skills in the presentation of informational sessions
  3. Engage them in data collection as we create a database on HIV/AIDS

Logical-Mathematical

  1. Show HIV/AIDS in figures e.g. since HIV/AIDS was discovered, 1 in 7 have been affected, 3 in ten have died and 10 in 10 have been affected
  2. Mathematically show where they community is headed without a realistic and logical approach to fighting the disease e.g. 1 man sleeping with a virgin will not stop HIV/AIDS instead 1 more person will be infected as a result two people will be infected and will go on to each infect at least 1 other person
  3. Show how one person can stop the spread of the disease mathematically
  4. If 1 infected person does not sleep around and spread the disease it is confined to that one person.

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