The theory of multiple intelligences enjoys considerable popularity with educators. Many teachers utilize multiple intelligences in their teaching philosophies and work to integrate Gardner’s theory into the classroom.
2. What is Intelligence?
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Traditional Definition:
“Intelligence is a uniform cognitive capacity people are
born with. This capacity can be easily measured by
short answer tests.
Webster’s Definition:
“The Power of knowing, the ability to understand
and/or deal with new situations.”
3. What is Multiple Intelligence?
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According to Howard Gardner, a psychologist and professor at
Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, “An intelligence
is the ability to solve problems or to create products, that are valued
within one or more cultural settings.”
The question is not “How smart am I?” but rather “How am I smart?”
4. Features of
Multiple
Intelligence
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He claims that human beings have multiple
intelligences.
Each individual has 9 intelligences in varying
amounts
These intelligences are located in different
areas of the brain.
They either work independently or together.
These MI can be nurtured and strengthened
or ignored & weakened.
We can improve education by addressing
these multiple intelligences of our students.
8. Linguistic
Intelligence
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Linguistic Intelligence (Word
Smart) is the capacity to use
language, your native
language, and perhaps other
languages, to express what's
on your mind and to
understand other people
People with high linguistic
intelligence are good at
reading, writing, telling
stories and memorizing
words with dates.
9. Linguistic
intelligent
people
learn best
by:
• Book reporting
• Telling jokes
• Writing words
• Reading
• Journal writing
• Speaking
•Letter writing
•Storytelling
•Discussing
•Creative writing
•Debating
•Persuading
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12. What is spatial intelligence?
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Spatial intelligence (Picture Smart) is the capacity to
think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately
and abstractly.
People with high visual-spatial intelligence have the
ability to visualize with mind’s eye.
They have the potential to recognize and use the
patterns of wide space and more confined area.
16. What is Logical-Mathematical
Intelligence?
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Logical-mathematical intelligence (Logic Smart) is the
capacity to use numbers effectively and reason well.
People with this intelligence think by reasoning, and they
love experimenting, questioning, figuring out logical
puzzles, and calculating.
They are able to identify a problem and solve it right there
on the spot.
17. Mathematic
al
intelligent
people
learn best
by:
Analyzing
Categorizing
Formulas
Logic Games
Numbers
Outlining
Patterns
Problem Solving
Reasoning
Time-Lines
Synthesis
Sequencing
Rational Thinking
Scientific Thinking
Venn diagram
Statistics
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21. Musical
Intelligent
People
learn best
by:
• Sing Ballads
• Create Chants
• Create Concept Songs
• Discographies (lists of musical
selections to enhance what you are
learning or teaching.)
• Environmental Sounds
• Humming
• Illustrate With Sounds
• Rhythms
• Instrumental sounds
• Listening
• Lyrics
• Mood Music
• Music Composition or creation
• Musical concepts
• Musical Performance
• Percussion and Raps
• Reproduce sounds and rhythms
• Singing and Songs
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22. Careers • Song Writer
• Performing
Musician
• Piano Tuner
• Singer
• Musical Theater
Actor/ Actress
• Studio Engineer
• Instrument
Manager
• Rapper
• Advertising Agent
• Conductor
• Disc Jockey
• Film/Instrument
Maker
• Composer
• Music Teacher
• Sound Engineer
• Music Therapist
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24. What is
Bodily-
Kinesthetic
Intelligence
?
• Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence
(Body Smart) is an expertise in
using one’s whole body to
express ideas and feelings.
• It is the ability to control one’s
body movements and to handle
objects skillfully.
• People with high bodily-
kinesthetic Intelligence have total
body control, sense of timing, a
clear sense of the goal of a
physical action, an ability to train
responses to become reflexes.
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25. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Thinking through physical sensations
Love
Dancing
Running
Jumping
Building
Touching
Gesturing
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Need
Role play
Drama
Movement
Things to build
Sports and physical games
Tactile (touchable) experiences
Hands-on learning
26. Bodily-
Kinesthetic
Intelligent
People best
learn by:
• Acting
• Charades
• Collections
• Demonstrations
• Experiments
• Field Trips
• Gymnastics
• Impersonations
• Inventing
• Martial Arts
• Miming
• Puppetry
• Visiting
• Exercise
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29. Interpersonal
Intelligence
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Interpersonal intelligence,
(people smart), is
understanding other
people.
Capacity to detect and
respond appropriately to
the moods, motivations
and desires of others.
People with high inter-
personal intelligence tend
to be extroverts, sensitive
to other’s moods, feelings,
temperaments and
motivations.
30. Interperson
ally
intelligent
people
learn best
by:
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Giving feedback to the teacher or to
classmates
• Understanding other's feelings
• Person-to-person communication
• Cooperative learning strategies
• Receiving feedback
• Group projects
• Teaching someone else something new
• Learning from someone outside of school
• Other points of view
• Creating group rules
• Acting in a play or simulation
• Conducting an interview
• Creating "phone buddies" for homework
• Sensing others’ motives
• Creating group rules
31. Careers • Administrator
• Anthropologist
• Arbitrator
• Counselor
• Manager
• Nurse
• Personnel
Director
• Politician
• Social Worker
• Public Relations
• Salesperson
• School Principal
• Sociologist
• Therapist
• Teacher
• Travel Agent
• Religious Leader
• Psychologist
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33. Intrapersonal Intelligence
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Essentially, it’s how well you know yourself.
This intelligence includes having an accurate picture of oneself (one’s strengths and
weaknesses); awareness of inner moods, intentions, motivations, temperaments, and
desires; and the capacity for self-discipline, self-understanding, and self-esteem.
Capacity to be self-aware (Self Smart) and in tune with inner feelings, values, beliefs and
thinking processes.
34. Intraperson
ally
intelligent
people
learn best
by:
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• Autobiography
• Awareness of Personal Feelings
• Concentration
• Expression of Feelings
• Focusing
• Free-Choice Time
• Goal Setting
• Higher-Order Thinking and Reasoning
• Independent Studies Projects
• Mood Awareness and Shifting
• Personal Application
• Personal Priorities
• Personal Projection
• Sensing the Emotions of the Moment
• Self –Identification
• Thinking Strategies
37. Naturalistic Intelligence
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Ability to recognize and categorize plants,
animals and other objects in nature.
People with high naturalistic
intelligence (Nature Smart) are
extremely sensitive to nature,
nurturing and relating information to
one’s natural surrounding.
42. Caution for Educators !
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No intelligence is
better than
another
Avoid
categorizing
students
Don’t teach
everything in all
8 ways
Try to include
each intelligence
in each unit
or group of
lessons
Adjust ways of
assessing
43. Questions to Ponder:
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What does it mean to be a multiple intelligence teacher?
How can I do a better job at teaching to diverse
intelligences?
What are my strongest and weakest intelligences?
What are my goals? Will this benefit my students and
how?
44. Qualities
of an
Effective
MI
Teacher
• Communicative
• Committed
• Compassionate
• Creative
• Dependable
• Ethical
• Flexible
• Knowledgeable
• Motivational
• Organized
• Positive
• Patient
• Personable
• Perceptive
• Resourceful
• Sense of
Humor
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