Multiple Intelligences

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Multiple Intelligences

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Intelligence Theory

• Traditional or Multiple

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Traditional Views of Intelligence

• What makes a person intelligent?
• The most common responses will often note a
  person's ability to use logic.
• This typical trait is usually lumped together
  with a persons ability to understand, examine,
  and respond to stimuli.
• Traditionally, smart people are expected to
  solve a math problem correctly or to take a test
  well and score high compared to their peers.

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Multiple Intelligences

• Recent advances in psychology, developmental
  psychology and neuroscience suggest that each
  person's level of intelligence, is actually made
  up of several different ways of knowing that can
  work individually or together.
• Dr. Howard Gardner, a Harvard researcher, has
  identified seven such ways of knowing, which he
  labeled as intelligences.

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Gardners Definition of Intelligence

• The ability to solve a problem or fashion a
  product that appeals to many cultures.
• A set of skills, competences or ways of knowing
  that results in products or services that
  contribute to a society.

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Multiple Intelligences.

• Are the abilities that individuals possess that
  make them unique as well as enable them to excel
  at certain tasks.

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its not how smart you areIts how you are
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Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

• Well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to
  the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words
• This person likes to and is good at
• reading, writing and telling stories.
• Memorizing names, places, dates and trivia.
• Learns best by saying, hearing and seeing words.

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Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

• The ability to think conceptually and abstractly,
  and capacity to discern logical or numerical
  patterns.
• This person likes to and is good at
• Doing experiments, figuring things out, working
  with numbers, asking questions, exploring
  patterns and relationships.
• Math, reasoning, logic and problem solving.
• Learns best by categorizing, classifying and
  working with abstract patterns/relationships.

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Visual/Spatial Intelligence

• Capacity to think in images and pictures, to
  visualize accurately and abstractly
• This person likes to and is good at
• Drawing, building, designing and creating things,
• This person daydreams, looks at pictures, and
  watches movies and plays with machines.
• Imagining things, sensing changes, mazes/puzzles
  and reading maps, charts.
• This person learns best by visualizing,
  dreaming, using the mind's eye and working with
  colors and pictures.

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Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

• The ability to control one's body movements and
  to handle objects skillfully.
• This Person likes to and is good at
• Moving around, touching and talking and using
  body language.
• Physical activities such as sports, dance, acting
  and crafts.
• Learn best by touching, moving, interacting with
  objects and space, and processing knowledge
  through bodily sensations.

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Musical/Rythmic Intelligence

• Ability to perform and comprehend musically
  and/or rythmically.
• This person
• Likes to sing, hum tunes, listen to music, play
  an instrument and respond to music.
• Is good at picking up sounds, remembering
  melodies, noticing pitches/rhythms and keeping
  time.
• Learns best by rhythm, melody and music.

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Interpersonal Intelligence

• The capacity to detect and respond appropriately
  to the moods, motivations and desires of others.
• This person likes to and is good at
• Having lots of friends, talking to people and
  joining groups.
• Understanding people, leading others, organizing,
  communicating, manipulating and mediating
  conflicts.
• This person learns best by sharing, comparing,
  relating, cooperating and interviewing.

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Intrapersonal Intelligence

• Has the capacity to be self-aware and in tune
  with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking
  processes
• This person likes to and is good at
• Working alone and pursuing own interests.
  Understanding self, focusing inward on
  feelings/dreams, following instincts, pursuing
  interests/goals and being original.
• This person learns best by working alone,
  individualized projects, self-paced instruction
  and having own space.

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Remember The Three Ps

• Possibilities
• Probabilities
• Preferences

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Which are you?

• Tests