The Multiple Intelligences Schools Network (MISNET). On behalf of the MISNET is initiated by the Gifted Education Council and the G.T. Education Foundation.
With the conviction that the MI (multiple intelligences) education is a right more than a luxury for students and schools, today, we have taken the initiative–to take a joint pledge and to start our exploration of the concept and practices of MI via more regular meetings and exchanges in the year to come.
As a transformative and committed leader of Hong Kong school/organisation, being a founding member of the MISNET will be of defining differences to the education journey of our students, parents, teachers, and school successes.
We should hereby take pride and pleasure in our concerted effort to create more success, sanity, and satisfaction for our students, teachers, parents, and policy-makers.
There would be follow-up work for member schools, such as regular sharing sessions in the MI Reading Club, in the half yearly Research MI journal, and in the MI Teaching & Learning sharing sessions, just to name a few.
Professor Benny Hon
Professor Benny Hon kicked off the MISNET Inauguration with his presentation topic, “Research Talent Education Programme for Gifted Students in Hong Kong” which is a pilot study for a research group to be composed of gifted students from G.T. College and research students from local and overseas universities. The duration of the programme will be four months starting from the midst of December 2022 and expected to have a regular 3-hour weekly meeting at CityU or G.T. College.
Professor Hon gave a thorough explanation of the programme in the pilot study which provided 4 full-day Math/3D lessons and 2 full-day Psychology workshops to the 54 selected gifted students of Hong Kong in the summer of 2020. These STEM lessons included Mathematics theory/3D Modelling techniques to equip students with the ability to handmake mathematical models from raw materials and 3D software “Tinkercad. ”
Prof. Rex Li
Prof. Rex Li,the MI guru of Hong Kong, presented one of his articles about Professor Howard Gardner entitled “MI Theory: Howard Gardner in Progress” (see Research MI, Vol. 1 No. 1). The life stories of Gardner are inspiring and amazing to the guest audience and teachers in the MISNET Inauguration on 9 December 2022.
Touching the significant stages of Gardner’s life, Prof. Li revealed to the all-eyed audience that it is never too late to learn and embrace the dynamic of learning and MI education on- and off-campus. The sharing of the day seems to draw some parallels between the gifted the talented, the able and the average.
