Multiple Intelligences: Let em show you how they re smart! Diana Beasley April 17, 2007 East Carolina University
Some facts about me: Name 3 things you like to do in nature. Write the name of a favorite song you like to sing. Write down a physical exercise you are able and willing to do. When alone, I like to.. Name something you recently read. List 3 words that express your feelings about math. Draw your bedroom as it looks right now. Describe someone you really admire.
BELIEFS: Students are one-of-a kind individuals with unique strengths, weaknesses, aptitudes, interests, and capabilities. Well educated students acquire a background in academics, arts, and in critical and creative thinking. By knowing who they are and what they can do, students love of learning, excitement about life, and self-confidence becomes a bedrock for lifelong growth and success.
What is INTELLIGENCE? Webster s defines it as: The power of knowing The ability to understand and/or deal with new situations The skilled use of reason
1916 Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Mental Age (MA) Chronological Age (CA) MA/CA X 100 = IQ Average is 100 Tests mostly Verbal and Math skills, some Visual/Spatial
How Intelligences Develop: Intelligence Biological Endowment nature Personal Life History nurture Cultural/Historic Background time/place
Howard Gardner (1943- ) Graduated from Boston School of Medicine in Neurology. Harvard Graduate School professor and psychologist in cognition and education. He defines intelligence as: an ability to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultures. The question is not How smart am I? but rather How am I smart? It is how we learn, process, and understand information. Theory of Multiple Intelligences consists of 8 types of intelligence.
Dr. Howard Gardner, Harvard Frames of Mind, 1983 Each person is a unique blend of dynamic intelligences which grow, expand and develop throughout life. Intelligence is not singular. Multiple intelligences can be identified and described. Rarely do they work alone, rather intelligences are combined in our activities. One can enhance another. Teaching students about their intelligence strengths helps them be self-advocates in their learning.
Gardner s Multiple Intelligences Verbal/Linguistic Logical/Mathematical Visual/Spatial Musical/Rhythmic Bodily/Kinesthetic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalist
Name of Intelligence (Nickname and Brief description) Famous people who show high levels of this intelligence. Characteristics of the student with high level of this intelligence Best teaching practices. How can material be presented? Best assessment strategies. How can students show mastery?
Verbal/Linguistic The ability to read, write, and communicate with words The ability to use language to express one s thoughts and to understand other people orally or in writing
Logical/Mathematical The ability to reason and calculate Enables individuals to use and appreciate abstract relations The ability to manipulate numbers, quantities,operations, etc.
Visual/Spatial The ability to think in pictures and visualize future results The ability to imagine things in your mind s eye The ability to perceive spatial information
Musical/Rhythmic The ability to create, communicate, and understand meanings made out of sound The ability to compose music, to sing, and to keep rhythm The ability to hear music, tones, and larger musical patterns
Bodily/Kinesthetic Allows individuals to use all or part of one s body to create products, solve problems, or present ideas and emotions Using the body in highly differentiated ways for expressive, recreational, or goal directed purposes
Interpersonal Enables individuals to recognize and make distinctions among others feelings and intentions The ability to work effectively with others and display empathy
Intrapersonal The ability to distinguish among an individual s own feelings, to accurate mental models of themselves, and use them to make decisions about life The capacity to know one s self
Naturalist Allows one to distinguish among, classify, and use features of the environment The ability to discriminate among living things and to see patterns in the natural world
Qualities of an Effective Teacher Positive Communicative Dependable Personable Organized Committed Motivational Resourceful Compassionate Flexible Perceptive Ethical Knowledgeable Creative Patient Sense of Humor
Questions to Ponder: What does it mean to be a multiple intelligences teacher? How can I do a better job of teaching to diverse intelligences? What are my strongest /weakest intelligences? What are my goals? Will this benefit my students?
QUALITY EDUCATION Rigor Relevance Relationships
Sources of Information: http://www.ga.unc.edu/ncta/ncta/tamultin t.htm http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/gardner.shtml NC Teacher Academy, 2003. Multiple Intelligences Participant Manual. Silver, Harvey F., 2000. So Each May Learn, ASCD.