2. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences is a type of
learning style, which is the common way to
determine a persons mode of grasping information,
thinking, and problem solving.
Since he founded the eight intelligences, three more
intelligences were included.
Gardner thinks all individuals have all the
intelligences but not all are the dominant way they
learn.
Intelligences are also influenced by learning
opportunities in a person’s culture, and biological
make up.
The eight intelligences are linguistic, body-
kinesthetic, spatial/visual, musical, logical-
mathematic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and
naturalistic.
3. Linguistic: Student loves to read, write, and tell stories.
Bodily-Kinesthetic: Student loves to move, touch, and use
body language.
Spatial/Visual: Loves to play with items in order to
understand new information.
Musical: Loves listening to music, sensitive to pitch and
rhythm.
Logical/Mathematic: Loves to work with numbers and
experiments, enjoys solving puzzles.
Interpersonal: Loves to interact with people and show
leadership skills.
Intrapersonal: Prefers individual work, and is self motivated.
Naturalistic: Prefers to work with nature.
4. In every classroom you’re going to have students that
demonstrate strengths in one or more of the eight
intelligences.
allowing students to work in cooperative learning groups,
either mixing different intelligence types or clustering
them, depending on the assignments, may be a successful
strategy for teachers
Another option might be to offer two to five choices of
activities students can do to demonstrate their mastery of
the content. This would allow teachers less time for
preparation and grading assignments, but would still allow
students to tackle their work using their natural skills.
You can involve technology in almost all of the eight
intelligences. For instance playing music on an ipad and
teaching your students a new dance (Bodily-Kinesthetic)
5. Students can use the multiple intelligence theory
to strengthen their own interests.
For instance if a student has a strong interest in
interacting with other kids and shows great
leadership skills that student will probably
flourish in group projects and may even grown to
be class president.
Students can involve technology with multiple
intelligences by using a computer to read
articles/books or a student who likes to write in
their free time. This would benefit a student who
has a linguistic intelligence.
6. Multiple Intelligence Theory in Action
The Cognitivitist Theory of Multiple Intelligences (M.I.) fosters student
learning by teaching to each of the student’s strength.
Teaching a student a jingle for the color of the rainbows will help
them remember the colors as well as the ordinal pattern they belong
as opposed to making them try to memorize all of the colors and then
the order they belong in using repetition. Music being one of the M.I.,
will help them interact and have fun while learning two skills.
For a student learning how to read, the pictures help the child figure
out what is happening in the story without actually reading it.
Teaching to the child using M.I. builds positive learning experiences
thus building the student’s self-esteem and form a love of learning.
When you are teaching to the student using M.I. you are teaching to
the student’s strength and the child will become an active and more
involved learner.
