2. TRAINING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1. Explain the strategies that need to be incorporated
in the instruction for the different learning styles.
2. Describe each of the nine (9) Multiple Intelligences
by Dr. Howard Gardner.
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3. HOW DO YOU LEARN BEST?
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4. 3 Student Learning Styles
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Spoken words, music,
video, sound clips
Illustrations, graphics, books,
manuals, handouts, slide
presentations, flip charts,
pictures, actual items
Hands on
activities,
practical exercises
See it.
Hear it.
Do it.
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5. Which Way Do you Learn?
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6. 9 Multiple Intelligences
1. Visual or Spatial
2. Verbal or Linguistic
3. Logical or Mathematical
4. Bodily or Kinesthetic
5. Musical or Rhythmic
6. Interpersonal
7. Intrapersonal
8. Naturalistic
9. Existential
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7. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Think in pictures & need vivid mental images either
shown or created
• Enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos,
graphics, handouts & movies.
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Visual/Spatial
SKILLS: puzzle building, understanding charts & graphs,
creating visual metaphors & analogies, & constructing
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8. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Highly developed auditory skills
• Elegant speakers
• Think in words rather than pictures
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Verbal/Linguistic
SKILLS: story-telling, teaching, understanding the
syntax & meaning of words, case studies, books,
handouts & journaling
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9. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Think conceptually in logical & numerical patterns
• Always curious of the world around them
• Frequently ask questions
• Like to do experiments & puzzles
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Logical/Mathematical
SKILLS: problem solving, questioning, working with
geometric shapes, classifying & categorizing
information
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10. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Express through movement & ability to control body
movements & handle objects skillfully
• Like to take notes
• Like to practice & do things
• Like to eat in the classroom
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Bodily/Kinesthetic
SKILLS: physical coordination, hands on
experimentation, & using their hands to create or build
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11. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Think in sounds, rhythms & patterns
• Immediately respond to music
• Extremely sensitive to environmental sounds
• May translate your teaching into rhymes
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Musical/Rhythmic
SKILLS: recognizing tonal patterns, composing music, &
remembering melodies
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12. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Try to see things from other people’s point of view
• Ability to sense feelings, intentions & motivations
• Great organizers, sometimes manipulators
• Like to talk & share with others
• Tend to sit in the back of the classroom
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Interpersonal
SKILLS: listening, seeing things from other perspectives,
co-operating with groups, peaceful conflict resolution
& establishing positive relations with other people
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13. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Ability to self-reflect & be aware of one’s inner state
of being
• Try to understand their inner feelings, dreams,
strengths & weaknesses
• Look off into space
• Like independent projects, often will sit by
themselves & tend to not want to interact
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Intrapersonal
SKILLS: recognizing their own strengths &
weaknesses, reasoning with themselves &
evaluating their thinking patters.
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14. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Ability to understand nature
• Aware of their surroundings, & changes in the
environment
• Like animals
• Enjoy outside activities.
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Naturalistic
SKILLS: noticing patterns, differences & things
from nature & their surroundings easily, have keen
senses, & observe & remember things from
environment & surroundings
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15. 9 Multiple Intelligences
• Like to find & see the “big” picture
• Need to relate learning to theories & other real
world experiences.
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Existential
SKILLS: seeing the big picture & analytical thinking
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16. Multiple Intelligences Theory
• It proposed that each person has capacities in
all intelligences.
• Varying the methods used to present &
reinforce information
• More learner senses you involve in your
presentation, the better the information is
learned & retained.
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17. SUMMARY
You will now summarize the lesson.
1. Explain the strategies that need to be incorporated
in the instruction for the different learning styles.
2. Describe each of the nine (9) Multiple Intelligences
by Dr. Howard Gardner.
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