Training teachers to observation: an approach through multiple intelligences theory

Abstract

Observation is a daily practice in scholastic and educational contexts, but it needs to develop into a professional competence to be helpful. To design an educative and didactic plan and to provide useful tools, activities, and tasks to their students, teachers, and educators need to collect information about learners. For these reasons, we’ll build a Web-Observation (Web-Ob) application, a tool able to support good practices in observation. In particular, the Web-Ob can provide Multiple Intelligences Theory as a framework through which children’s behaviors and attitudes can be observed, assessed, and evaluated.