Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences.pdf

Multiple intelligences

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. 7Intelligences –by Dr. Howard Gardner
1983
Linguistic or
Verbal
Logic-
Mathematical
Musical
Spatial or
Visual
Body-
Kinesthetic
InterpersonalIntrapersonal

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.