Multiple+Intelligences

=What is Multiple Intelligence?*= Conceived by Howard Garner, Multiple Intelligences are seven different ways to demonstrate intellectual ability. What are the types of Multiple Intelligence? multiple intelligences - howard gardners multiple intelligences theory @http://www.bgfl.org/index.cfm?s=1&m=3172&p=1920,index

Visual/Spatial Intelligence
ability to perceive the visual. These learners tend to think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information. They enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos, and movies.

Their skills include:
puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, a good sense of direction, sketching, painting, creating visual metaphors and analogies (perhaps through the visual arts), manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, interpreting visual images.

others: Navigators, sculptors, visual artists, inventors, architects, interior designers, mechanics, engineers.

Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence
ability to use words and language. These learners have highly developed auditory skills and are generally elegant speakers. They think in words rather than pictures.

others: Poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, translator.

Logical/Mathematical Intelligence
ability to use reason, logic and numbers. These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Always curious about the world around them, these learners ask many questions and like to do experiments.

Their skills include:
problem solving, classifying, and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other, handling long chains of reason to make local progressions, doing controlled experiments, questioning and wondering about natural events, performing complex mathematical calculations, working with geometric shapes.

others: Scientists, engineers, computer programmers, researchers, accountants, mathematicians.

Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence
ability to control body movements and handle objects skillfully. These learners express themselves through movement. They have a good sense of balance and eye-hand co-ordination. (e.g. ball play, balancing beams). Through interaction with the space around them, they are able to remember and process information.

Their skills include:
dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, and expressing emotions through the body.

others: Athletes, physical education teachers, dancer’s actors, firefighters, artisans.

Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence
ability to produce and appreciate music. These musical inclined learners think in sounds, rhythms, and patterns. They immediately respond to music either appreciation or criticizing what they hear. Many of these learners are extremely sensitive to environmental sounds (e.g. crickets, bells, dripping taps).

Their skills include:
singing, whistling, playing musical instruments, recognizing tonal patterns, composing music, remembering melodies, understanding the structure and rhythm of music. others: musician, disc jockey, singer, composer.

Interpersonal Intelligence
ability to relate and understand others. These learners try to see things from other people’s point of view in order to understand how they think and feel... They often have an uncanny ability to sense feelings, intentions, and motivations. They are great organizers, although they sometimes resort to manipulation. Generally they try to maintain peace in-group settings ad encourage co-operation. They use both verbal (e.g. speaking) and non-verbal language (e.g. eye contact, body language) to open communication channels with others.

Their skills include:
Seeing things from other perspectives (dual-perspective), listening, using empathy, understanding other people’s moods and feelings, counseling, co-operating with groups, noticing people’s moods, motivations and intentions, communicating both verbally and non-verbally, building trust, peaceful conflict resolution, establishing positive relations with other people.

Intrapersonal Intelligence:
ability to self-reflect and be aware of one’s inner state of being. These learners try to understand their inner feelings, dreams, relationships with others, and strengths and weaknesses.

Their skills include:
Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others. others: researchers, theorists, philosophers.