Title: Learning About Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences: Applying Them to Your Students - BrightHub Education
Headings: Learning About Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences: Applying Them to Your Students
Learning About Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences: Applying Them to Your Students
Multiple Intelligence & Howard Gardner Basics
Reasons to Give MI a Try
Practical Uses of Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
Using MI in Language Arts Class
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Content: The second edition was released ten years later. He questioned Piaget and the idea that intelligence can be derived from a single assessment, such as IQ tests. He believed that children can be at different stages of development at different times in their lives. Reasons to Give MI a Try
Some criticism and questions surround Gardner’s ideas. However, Mark Smith believes that they are still worthwhile to use in the classroom. “ For example, Mindy Kornhaber and her colleagues at the Project SUMIT (Schools Using Multiple Intelligences Theory) have examined the performance of a number of schools and concluded that there have been significant gains in respect of SATs scores, parental participation, and discipline (with the schools themselves attributing this to MI theory)” in Smith’s article, “Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences and Education” on the Infed website. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory distinguishes between eight main types of intelligence: Verbal-linguistic intelligence ( word smart ): using language to store, process and transmit information
Logical-mathematical intelligence ( number smart ): using patterns to think and reason logically
Musical intelligence ( music smart ): using music and rhythm to learn
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence ( body smart ): using the body or physical activity to learn
Spatial intelligence ( picture smart ): using visual sources to interpret information
Interpersonal intelligence ( people smart ): able to interact with others, understand them, and interpret their behavior
Intrapersonal intelligence ( self smart ): able to understand self: strengths, weakness, reactions and emotions
Naturalist intelligence ( nature smart ): able to use patterns to connect to nature
A more in-depth explanation of the eight intelligences is on The Education Coalition website, which is directed by Dr. Carla Lane. Practical Uses of Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
Students learn differently.