Multiple Intelligences

1. Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner (1983, 1993)

2. When you enter your classroom, you should feel comfortable in the knowledge that students come to you with the capacity to learn. • Howard Gardner coined the term “multiple intelligences” in response to his observation of the implications of empirical research on the brain and human cultures.

3. To his original seven intelligences, Gardner has added an eighth, the naturalist. • Linguistic Intelligence • Logical –mathematical Intelligence • Spatial Intelligence • Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence • Musical Intelligence • Interpersonal Intelligence • Intrapersonal Intelligence • Naturalist Intelligence

4. Linguistic Intelligence • the capacity to use language, your native language, and perhaps other languages, to express what’s on your mind and to understand other people. • Poets , any kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or a person whom language is important; all specialize in linguistic intelligence.

5. Logical Mathematic Intelligence • the capacity to understand the underlying principles of some kind of a casual system the way a scientist, or logician does; • or the ability to manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations—the way a mathematician does.

6. Spatial Intelligence • the ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind • the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, • or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatial world. • If you are spatially intelligent and oriented toward the arts, you are more likely to become a painter or a sculptor or an architect • Certain sciences like anatomy or topology emphasize spatial intelligence.

7. Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence • the capacity to use your whole body or pars of your body—your hand, your fingers, your arms • to solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of a production. • the most evident examples are people in athletics or the performing arts, particularly dance or acting.

8. Musical Intelligence • The capacity to think in music, • to be able to hear patterns, • recognize them, and • perhaps manipulate them “People who have a strong musical intelligence don’t just remember easily—they can’t get it out of their minds.”

9. Interpersonal Intelligence • Understanding other people. • It’s an ability we all need, but is at a premium if you are a teacher, clinician, salesperson, or politician. • Anybody who deals with other people has to be skilled in the interpersonal sphere.

10. Intrapersonal Intelligence • Having an understanding of yourself, • of knowing who you are, • what you can or cannot do, • how you react to things, • which things to avoid, and • which things to gravitate toward.

11. Naturalist Intelligence • the human ability to discriminate among living things (plants, animals) • as well as sensitivity to other features of the natural world (clouds, rock configurations).

12. Summary • Gardner calls on teachers to value all of these intelligences and to allow students to work on school tasks in different ways to help all students utilize their strengths. • By embracing the concept of multiple intelligences, you will be compelled to think about students and your own planning and assessment differently.

13. All represent biological and psychological potentials, which are fulfilled when people have real-world experiences that pertain to them. • Students as well as all human beings have strengths in the eight intelligences. • In the same classroom, one student may have a high potential in the bodily-kinesthetic and interpersonal intelligences, and relatively low potential in logical-mathematical intelligence.

14. Gardner calls on teachers to value all of these intelligences and • to allow student to work on school tasks in different ways to help all students utilize their strengths.