A teacher training slideshow about teaching and learning using the Multiple Intelligence model

1. APPLICATION OF
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
IN THE EFL CLASSROOM
11/11/14
Jack Pillemer
jackpillemer@gmail.com

2. If a person is intelligent, he/she can ….

3. What is Intelligence?
(random from the web)
• the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills
• cognitive problem-solving skills
• "catching on," "making sense" of things, or "figuring out"
what to do.
• ability to interact with the environment and overcome its
challenges

4. Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardener: Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education.
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983)

5. Verbal / Linguistic
• Description: Possess the ability to use language
effectively both orally and in writing; understanding
through the use of words; enjoy writing, wordplay, and
listening to stories, discussing issues.
• Teaching Method: Focuses on using language
communicatively
• Lesson Ideas: Read a book aloud or tell a story, debate a
current issue, incorporate journal writing

6. Visual / Spatial
visual learning style
Description
Recognizes, form,
space, color, line,
and shapes well
Learns from
graphically
represented
information
Absorbs images
best
Lesson Ideas:
Use colored
markers on board
to mark word
categories
Include charts/
graphs to
represent ideas
Use pictures/
flashcards.
Show a video
Teaching Method Teacher must provide clear visual information

7. Body / Kinesthetic
tactile learning style
• Description: Possess the ability to use the body to express
ideas and feelings and to solve problems. They experience
learning best through various kinds of movement.
•
Teaching Method: Combines physical actions/body
movements with linguistic responses to express ideas,
accomplish tasks, create moods
• Lesson Ideas: Go on field trips, do experiments, use cutting
and sticking and building, incorporate sport, use drama, have
students get up and walk around, make a fruit salad

8. Interpersonal
• Description: Possess the ability to understand others and to
respond. They like to interact and learn best in groups or with a
partner; they learn while speaking to others in an “authentic’
settings.
Teaching Method: With the person you are sitting next decide what should
be written here.
Focuses on group learning, collaboration and social interaction
Lesson Ideas: Think of one good idea and find someone else to share it with
the person you are sitting next, list at least 2 ideas
Have small group discussions, use role-play, use peer teaching,
have students carry out authentic tasks with others inside and
outside the class

9. Logical -Mathematical
• Description: Possess the ability to use numbers effectively
and reason well. They are good at problem solving.
•
Teaching Method: Focuses on using logic and mathematical
models to represent and help students work with concepts and
ideas.
• Lesson Ideas: Play logic games, teach and apply rules, have
students derive rules, provide critical thinking and problem
solving puzzles, incorporate numbers.

10. Description: Possess the ability to recognize rhythm,
pitch, and melody. They learn best through songs, patterns,
rhythms.
Indicate the way to my abode,
I'm fatigued and I wish to retire,
I partook of a beverage 60 minutes ago
And it’s proceeded to my cerebellum.
Teaching Method: Focuses on using sound music and
rhythms.
Wherever I may perambulate,
On land or sea or agitated waters,
You can always hear me humming this
“melodity”,
Lesson Ideas: Play background music, teach with chants,
sing/listen to songs.
Indicate the way to my abode.
Musical-Rhythmic
auditory learning style
Show me the way to go home,
I'm tired and I want to go to bed,
I had a little drink about an hour ago,
And it's gone right to my head.
Wherever I may I roam,
On land or sea or foam,
You can always hear me singing this
song,
Show me the way to go home.

11. Intrapersonal
• Description: Possess the ability to know about and
understand themselves. They are reflective and intuitive.
They learn through self-knowledge of motives, goals,
strengths, and weaknesses.
How would you rate your own
intelligences - “smarts”?
Strong / Average/ Weak
 Verbal / Linguistic
 Visual / Spatial
 Body / Kinesthetic
 Interpersonal
 Logical / Mathematical
 Musical/ Rhythmic
 Intrapersonal
How would you rate your teaching
methods?
Strong / Average/ Weak
 Verbal / Linguistic
 Visual / Spatial
 Body / Kinesthetic
 Interpersonal
 Logical / Mathematical
 Musical/ Rhythmic
 Intrapersonal
• Teaching Method: Focuses on guiding students’ learning
through personal reflection
• Lesson Ideas: Allow independent reading, give choice in
projects, have students define and share their goals.

12. TASK – See Worksheet
“number /
reasoning
smart”

13. THANK YOU
Jack Pillemer -
jackpillemer@gmail.com

14. END