Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences.pdf
- 1. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences Prepared by Susan Vo
- 2. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Howard Earl Gardner is an American developmental psychologist who has written hundreds of research articles and thirty books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, as outlined in his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
- 3. According to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, humans have several different ways of processing information and these ways are relatively independent of one another. The theory is a critique of the standard intelligence theory, which emphasizes the correlation among abilities.
- 4. • There are at least seven ways that humans perceive and understand the world • Theorized by Howard Gardner in 1983
- 5. Linguistic or Verbal Learners • Sensitive to meanings, sounds and rhythms of words • Especially like storytelling and creative writing • They learn better by reading, memorizing, playing word games, and making up rhymes and puns
- 6. Logic-Mathematical Learners • Sensitive to order and sequence • Especially like problem solving, noting and creating patterns and experiments • They learn better by recording information systematically, setting up experiments, playing strategy games, analyzing data, and asking logical questions
- 7. Musical Learners • Sensitive to singing, playing instruments, drumming • Especially like the human voice, sounds from nature, instrumental music • They learn better by listening to recordings, talking to themselves, making up songs, mentally repeating information, reading aloud, and changing tempo
- 8. Spatial or Visual Learners • Sensitive to visual cues and images • Especially like day-dreaming and art • They learn better by studying pictures, watching videos, using visual, tangible aids, doing mazes, puzzles, and making predictions
- 9. Body-Kinesthetic Learners • Sensitive to activity, athletics and physical gestures while talking • Especially like role-playing, touching and feeling • They learn better by doing role plays, constructing physical examples, exercising while reviewing, visiting museums, institutions, parks, and asking logical questions
- 10. Interpersonal Learners • Sensitive to leadership opportunities, others’ feelings; “street smart” • Especially like helping others, peer tutoring, working cooperatively • They learn better by studying in groups, comparing information with others, interviewing experts, relating personal experiences, being a teamplayer, and doing cooperative projects
- 11. Intrapersonal Learners • Sensitive to their own feelings, personal motivation • Especially like day-dreaming, working alone • They learn better by avoiding distractions, establishing personal goals, playing solitary games, setting own pace, and working alone.
- 12. 7 Intelligences – by Dr. Howard Gardner 1983 Linguistic or Verbal Logic- Mathematical Musical Spatial or Visual Body- Kinesthetic Interpersonal Intrapersonal
- 13. Since 1999, Gardner has identified the eighth intelligence:
- 14. Naturalist Learners • Sensitive to patterns in and connecting to nature • Especially like animals and natural phenomena • They learn better by studying outside, learning in the presence of plants and pets, relating environmental issues to topics, smelling, seeing, touching, and tasting, and observing natural phenomenon
- 15. Gardner is informally considering two additional intelligences: existential and pedagogical
- 16. Many teachers, school administrators, and special educators have been inspired by Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences as it has allowed for the idea that there is more than one way to define a person's intellect.