The Multiple Intelligence Approach to Planning

ICONS Intelligence Description

Deals with words and language, both written and spoken.
Analyzing own use of language
Verbal/Linguistic Remembering
Explaining, teaching, learning
Understanding syntax and meaning of words
Has to do with person-to-person relationships and communication.
Seeing things from others' perspectives
Interpersonal Cooperating within a group
Noticing and making distinctions among others
Communicating verbally and nonverbally
Relates to physical movement and the wisdom of the body; uses brain's
motor cortex, which controls bodily motion.
Bodily/Kinesthetic Connecting mind and body
Improving body functions
Expanding whole body's awareness
Deals with recognizing tonal patterns, sounds, rhythms, and beats.
Creating melodies and rhythms
Musical/Rhythmic
Being sensitive to sounds
Understanding the structure of music
Relies on sense of sight and ability to visualize; includes ability to
create mental images.
Recognizing relationships between objects
Visual/Spatial Representing something graphically
Manipulating images
Forming mental pictures
Imagining
Deals with inductive and deductive thinking, numbers, and abstract
patterns; sometimes called scientific thinking.
Recognizing abstract patterns
Logical/Mathematical
Reasoning inductively and deductively
Performing complex calculations
Reasoning scientifically
Relates to self-reflection, metacognition, awareness of internal states
of being.
Concentrating
Intrapersonal
Evaluating one's own thinking
Being aware of and expressing various feelings
Understanding self in relationship to others
Credits: David Lazear, ​Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment ​, Zephyr Press 1994