What is multiple intelligences?

1. Emine YILDIZ 5601021011

2. The theory of multiple
intelligences was developed
in 1983 by Dr. Howard
Gardner, professor of
education at Harvard
University.

3. Ability or abilities to acquire
and use knowledge for solving
problems and adapting to the
world.
Most early theories about the
nature of intelligence involved one
or more of the following 3 themes:
(1) the capacity to learn; (2) the
total knowledge a person has
acquired; and (3) the ability to
adapt successfully to new
situations and to the
environment in general.

4. • Gardner defines intelligence as the
biopsychological potential to process
information that can be activated in a cultural
setting to solve problems or create products that
are of value in a culture.

5. The Intelligences
Naturalist Intelligence
Musical Intelligence
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence
Spatial/Visual
Intelligence
Logical-Mathematical
Intelligence
Verbal/Linguistic
Intelligence
Bodily-Kinaesthetic
Intelligence

6. • Capacity to use words
effectively, both orally and in
written form.
• Ability to manipulate the
structure, phonology semantics
and pragmatic dimensions of
language.
• Journalists, poets, playwrights,
public speakers…..

7. • Capacity with numbers,
logical patterns and
relationships.
• Use of categorisation,
classification, calculation
and hypothesis testing.
• Mathematicians,
accountants, statisticians,
scientists...

8. • Ability to perceive the visual
spatial world accurately.
• Sensitivity to colour, line,
shape, form and space.
• Ability to orient oneself in a
spatial matrix.
• Architects, artists,
inventors, designers...

9. • Show expertise in using one’s
body to express ideas and
feelings.
• Ability to use one’s hands to
produce or transform things as a
sculptor, mechanic or surgeon.
• Co-ordination, dexterity,
flexibility.
• Proprioceptive, tactile and haptic
capacities.

10. • It is based on the recognition of
tonal patterns, including various
environmental sounds, and on a
sensitivity to rhythm and beats.
• It turned on by the resonance or
vibrational effect of music and
rhythm on the brain, including
such things as the human voice,
sounds from nature or the musical
instruments.

11. • Ability to perceive and
make distinctions in
the moods, intentions
motivations and
feelings of other
people.

12. • Having an accurate picture of one’s
strengths and limitations.
• An awareness of one’s inner
moods, intentions, motivations
and desires.
• High degree of self-knowledge .
• Ability to act adaptively on the
basis on one’s self-knowledge.

13. • Ability to function
well in the natural
environment.
• The recognition
and categorisation
of natural objects.

15. Verbal-linguistic strategies involving reading
activities, memorizing new words, textbook
activities, worksheets, and making a conversation
activities are only some small example of teaching
strategies for linguistic intelligence.

16. Calculations, classifications, categorizations
in the activities such as puzzles, timelines,
patterns, formulas, abstract symbols,
diagrams, mind maps, computer games are
example activities for this intelligences.

17. Visualization is the most important thing in this
intelligences.
Graphic symbols and colorful pictures and videos are so
useful for students to improve their skills by using this
intelligences.

18. Body answers or some games like role plays or
dancing activities, pantomiming and presentations
are the example activities that using trough this
intelligences.

19. Rhythms, songs, chants, video clips and super-
memory music are the example tools of that
intelligences.

20. Peer sharing, people sculptures and cooperative
works helps students to use interpersonal intelligences
to understand others’ feeling well.

21. Personal connection, making a choice, goal-
setting decisions and asking – answering
personal questions are the example activities that
students use in this intelligences.

22. Nature walks, plants as props, classroom pet
and watching some video clips that show real
natural areas are the activities of this
intelligences.

23. • Teachers are encouraged to
administer an MI inventory on
themselves.
• They have a role that is not only
to improve the second language.

24. • Learners are expected to take an MI
inventory and to develop their own.
• Students need to see themselves
engaged in a process of personality
development beyond of being
successful language learners.

25. Pros
• All students will be seen as
successful.
• All different talents of
students will be appreciated.
• A variety of instructional
practices are used.
• Lessons are planned with
more thought.
• Meets individual needs
better.
Cons
• More time is needed for
lessons.
• Assessing students' learning
could be difficult.
• More supplies would be
needed.