MULTIPLE

INTELLIGENC
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LOVELY P. MENDOZA
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INTELLIGENCE

Key factor in predicting and

evaluating learning
The ability to learn or understand
things or to deal with new or
difficult situations
HOWARD GARDNER
(1982)
• a proponent of
“multiple intelligence”
theory
• suggest that
educators do people
disservice by thinking of
intelligence levels in
traditionally narrow
dimensions that relate
significantly to
academic achievement
VISUAL / SPATIAL
INTELLIGENCE

PICTURE SMART

Skills: puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding

charts and graphs, good sense of directions, sketching
painting, creative visual metaphors and analogies

Possible career interest: navigators, sculptors, visual

artists, inventors, architects, interior designers,
mechanics, engineers
VERBAL LINGUISTIC
INTELLIGENCE

WORD SMART

Skills: listening, speaking, writing, story telling,

explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding
the syntax and meaning of words.

Possible career interest: poet, journalist, writer,

teacher, lawyer, politician, translator
LOGICAL / MATHEMATICAIL
NTELLIGENCE

LOGIC SMART

Skills: problem solving, classifying and

categorizing information, working with abstract
concepts to figure out the relationship with other

Possible career interest: scientist, engineers,

computer programmer, accountants,
mathematicians
BODILY / KINESTHETIC
INTELLIGENCE

BODY SMART

Skills: dancing, physical coordination, sports,

hands-on-experimentation, crafts, miming,
expressing emotions through the body.

Possible career interest: athletes, physical

educators, dancers, actors
MUSICAL / RHYTHMTIC
INTELLIGENCE

MUSIC SMART

Skills: singing, whistling, playing musical

instruments, recognizing tonal patterns,
composing music

Possible career interest: musicians, disc jockey,

singer, composer
INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE

PEOPLE SMART

Skills: Seeing things from other perspectives,

listening, using empathy, understanding people’s
mood and feeling, counseling

Possible career interest: counselor,

salesperson, politician, business person
INTRAPERSONAL
INTELLIGENCE

SELF SMART

Skills: recognizing their own strength and

weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves,
awareness of their feelings, desires and dreams.

Possible career interest: researchers, theorists,

philosophers