Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

1. Main ways in which we are used to learning are: visual learning, auditory learning, and kinesthetic learning.

2. What is Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences ?

   • Basically, it is as its name indicates the theory of multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner, Ph.D., John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs, Harvard professor.
     • It led to the development of the six initial intelligences. Today there are nine, but over time they could be developed more.
   • Its main purpose
     • Employ personalized goals and values ​​appropriate for teaching

3. What is it for?

   • It can help instructors to pluralize their instruction and assessment methods and enrich student learning.

4. The 9 Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

   • Verbal-linguistic intelligence
     • Well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words
   • Logical-mathematical intelligence
     • Ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and capacity to discern logical and numerical patterns
   • Spatial-visual intelligence
     • Capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly
   • Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
     • Ability to control one’s body movements and to handle objects skillfully
   • Musical intelligences
     • Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber
   • Interpersonal intelligence
     • Capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others
   • Intrapersonal
     • Capacity to be self-aware and in tune with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes
   • Naturalist intelligence
     • Ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature
   • Existential intelligence
     • Sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence such as, “What is the meaning of life? Why do we die? How did we get here?