Year 9 Multiple Intelligence Testing

1. Year 9 Multiple Intelligence Testing A guide to help you with option choices and SATS revision, using your multiple intelligences.

2. What is intelligence? • Psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences. • He claimed that there are eight different intelligences. • He defines intelligence as the ability to solve problems in a particular way in differing situations. • As humans we have many different intelligences! • FACT! WE ARE ALL INTELLIGENT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

3. IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE BALANCED INTELLIGENCE To be a “smarter” person it would be best to develop all of your intelligences. Look at your results pie chart. What are your strong smart “slices” and what are your weak smart “slices”? Think about the kind of person you could be if you were strong in most areas! You could be a professional footballer, who can cook, sculpt and play guitar. whilst also finding out it is easy to measure areas for DIY projects. Someone who loves to party but finds quiet time to read a book on the environment, in the hope that they can make a difference in the world. YOU WOULD BE A GREAT ALL ROUND PERSON TO KNOW! So celebrate your strong intelligences. Use them to help you learn but accept the challenges to improve your other intelligences. It will make you SMARTER. Look through the following explanations of the SMART areas and see if the learning methods help to give you ideas to challenge your intelligence.

4. THE EIGHT WAYS TO BE SMART

5. WORD SMART • You may enjoy hearing and listening activities, tongue twisters, humour, jokes, oral and silent reading, creative writing, spelling,vocabulary, journal writing, diaries, poetry or creating television jingles. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Learn a language of a country you want to visit. • Use storytelling to explain • Conduct a debate • Write a poem,play,legend,news article • Create a talk show radio programme • Conduct an interview

6. LOGIC SMART • You may enjoy analysing a challenge, using calculators, charts, codes, computers, creating databases, experiments, measuring games, solving problems, finding patterns creating new games, researching,spreadsheets or time lines. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Make a map • Design and conduct an experiment • Make a graph to display information • Describe patterns or symmetry

7. PICTURE SMART • You may enjoy art, pictures,paintings, sculpture, drawings,doodling, mind mapping, patterns, designs and creating colour schemes. You may have an active imagination, like to play chess, put puzzles together, build blocks or find routes. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Chart, map, cluster or graph • Make a slide show, videotape • Create a piece of art • Invent a board game • Sculpt, draw, paint, photograph etc.

8. MUSIC SMART • You may enjoy audio taped presentations, musical performances, singing, whistling.humming, environmental sounds, rhythmic patterns, musical composition, instrumental sounds, tonal patterns and rap music. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS; • Give a musical presentation • Sing a rap or song • Indicate rhythmical patterns in • Make a musical instrument and play it • Have music on in the background

9. BODY SMART • You may enjoy role playing, making physical gestures, drama, impressions of voices, martial arts, playing sport, physical exercise, body language or creative dance. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Join a team or club • Make a task or puzzle card • Build or construct • Plan and attend a field trip • Bring hands on material • Dress as a character to tell a story or play

10. PEOPLE SMART • You may enjoy group projects, interpreting others’ feelings, division of labour, sensing others motives, giving and receiving feedback, one to one communication, cooperative learning strategies, empathy practices. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Conduct a meeting • Participate in a service project • Teach someone else • Practise giving and receiving feedback • Interview a class mate

11. SELF SMART • You may enjoy emotional processing, silent reflection, thinking, focusing, concentrating, reasoning skills, understanding yourself ( known as meta – cognitive techniques) • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Describe qualities that you have • Set and pursue a personal goal • Use a word processing application to write an ongoing journal/diary • Keep a personal dictionary • Share meaningful pictures and stories with the class

12. NATURE SMART • You may enjoy being outdoors into home or classroom, or relating the home or classroom to the natural world. You be interested in geography, temperature, ozone. Measuring, charting, and mapping changes. You may enjoy observing insects, animals,plants, soil and journals. You may be involved in recycling, reusing, outdoor walks, hikes and tours. • TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS: • Set up a local recycle scheme • Photograph natural objects • Use binoculars, telescopes, microscopes or magnifiers

13. HOW TO USE THE RESULTS PIE CHART TO HELP WITH OPTIONS CHOICES • OPTIONS Task 1 • Read through the explanations of the smart areas carefully. • Look at your strong intelligences and make a list of subjects that these intelligences would lend themselves to. • Look at your weak areas and make a list of subjects that you could connect with these areas. • Your list of strengths should confirm your solid choices for options. • Your weak areas should enable you to dismiss certain areas and offer some good learning strategies to help you with the compulsory subject areas. • IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE WHEEL ONLY AS A GUIDE WHEN MAKING CHOICES.

14. STRONG SMART AREAS AND CONNECTED SUBJECTS - - - - - - - - - - - - - WEAK SMART AREAS AND CONNECTED SUBJECTS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - YOUR INTELLIGENCE LISTS

15. SATS AND REVISION TECHNIQUES • Revision is difficult at the best of times. The SATS will be your first public exams at Heathfield. • During your SATS you will have to revise at home after a long day at school. Your knowledge of your own intelligences can help you make this task easier for yourself. • Each intelligence has different ways to help you learn any work given to you by your teachers. Use your strengths by revising in different ways. • Read, carefully, the revision guide and complete the revision timetable

16. SUGGESTED “SMART” REVISION TECHNIQUES

17. REVISION TIMETABLE