Multiple Intelligences

 
                                                                          

Presented by Nazool- e - Tabassum

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Who is intelligent?

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 Theoretical Premise: Howard
Gardner 1983, 2000
• People engage in different kinds of thinking
• There is a connection between thinking and
intelligence
• Howard Gardner challenges traditional views of
intelligence which he says have centered on only 2
types of intelligence ( linguistic & logical
mathematical)
• This theory is more appealing cross culturally because
other forms of intelligence are valued in other cultures
• Real people have a blend of intelligences & teachers
must consider instructional strategies that uses all the
intelligences
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Howard Gardner 1983, 2000
• Historically the traditional “intelligences” were
privileged but Gardner proposes that all 8 of his
intelligences are of equal utility
• Teachers have embraced this theory because it
is easy to apply to teaching and learning
• This theory also provides for alternative forms
of assessment. Instead of answering the
question “How smart are you?” assessment
becomes “How are you smart?”
• All intelligences can be taught & nurtured
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Gardner’s definition of
intelligence

• The ability to solve problems that

one encounters in real life
• The ability to generate new
problems to solve
• The ability to make something or
offer a service that is valued within
one’s culture

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 8 Intelligences – by Dr. Howard
Gardner
1. Linguistic
2. Logical/ Mathematical
3. Spatial
4. Bodily/ Kinesthetic
5. Musical
6. Interpersonal
7. Intrapersonal
8. Naturalistic

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 Can you define intelligence?
Allama Iqbal & Ashfaq Ahmad

Linguistic Intelligence
• capacity to use language
•Able to express what is on your mind
•Adept with words
• “Word Smart”

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Can you define intelligence?
Albert Einstein
Logical/ Mathematical
Intelligence
• Adept with numbers &
reasoning
•Manipulate numbers,
quantities and numbers
• “Number Smart”

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Can you define intelligence?
Gull Gee

Spatial Intelligence
• Adept with pictures &
images
•Able to represent the
spatial world internally
in your mind
• “Picture Smart”
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Can you define intelligence?
Jahangeer Khan
                 
Bodily/ Kinesthetic
Intelligence
• capacity to use parts
of the body to solve a
problem, make
something or put on
some kind of
production
• “Body Smart”
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Can you define intelligence?
Noor jehan &Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan

Musical Intelligence
• capacity to think in
•Music, able to hear
patterns, recognize
them,
manipulate them
• “Music Smart” 11
Can you define intelligence?

Abdus Sattar Edhi

Interpersonal Intelligence
• understanding other
People
•ability to work with &
motivate others toward a
common goal
• “People Smart” 12
Can you define intelligence?
Helen Keller
Intrapersonal
Intelligence
• Skills of self-
knowledge
•Knowing who you are,
what
you can do, what you
want
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• “Self smart”
Can you define intelligence?

David Suzuki

Naturalistic Intelligence
• Skills of making
connection to elements
in nature
• “Nature Smart”

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Traditional intelligence Vs
Multiple intelligence

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 Traditional Views of "Intelligence"
• Intelligence can be measured by short-answer
tests
• In traditional practice, teachers teach the same
material to everyone.
• Teachers teach a topic or "subject
• People are born with a fixed amount of
intelligence.

• Intelligence level does not change over a

lifetime.

• Intelligence consists of ability in logic and

language.
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 Multiple Intelligences" Theory
• Short answer tests are not used because they do not measure
deep understanding.
• M.I. pedagogy implies that teachers teach and assess
differently based on individual intellectual strengths and
weaknesses
• Teachers develop strategies that allow for students to
demonstrate multiple ways of understanding and value their
uniqueness.
• Human beings have all of the intelligences, but each person
has a unique combination, or profile

• We can all improve each of the intelligences, though some

people will improve more readily in one intelligence area than
in others.
• There are many more types of intelligence which reflect
different ways of interacting with the world
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TRADITIONAL TEACHER

• LECTURES while standing at the front of the

classroom
• WRITES on the blackboard

• ASKS students questions about the assigned

reading or handouts

• WAITS while students finish their written

work

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MI TEACHER

• LECTURES and WRITES on the whiteboard at the front of

the room
• BUT ALSO shifts methods of presentation from linguistic to
spatial to musical and so on, often combining intelligences in
creative ways such as:
– Drawing pictures on the whiteboard
– Showing a videotape to illustrate an idea
– Playing music at some time during the day
– Providing hands-on experiences
– Having students interacting with each other in
different ways

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How you are smart . . .

• impacts the way you teach.

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The Effects of Teachers’ Learning
Styles on Teaching

Learning Effect on Teaching

Style
The This teacher stresses a curriculum based
Verbal/Linguis on language—reading, writing, and
tic Learner speaking.

Stay alert to students with more concrete

learning styles.
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The Effects of Teachers’ Learning
Styles on Teaching

Learning Style Effect on Teaching

The This teacher tends to
Logical/Mathematical concentrate on concepts that
Learner are both logical and abstract.

Make a deliberate effort to focus on the fact that it

is appropriate for students to be artistic and to think
in intuitive leaps.
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The Effects of Teachers’ Learning
Styles on Teaching

Learning Style Effect on Teaching

The Visual/Spatial This teacher will provide a great
Learner learning environment for visual
learners. The artistic students
will do well in this classroom.

Build in adequate opportunities for students who

are linguistic learners and for those who feel
artistically inhibited.
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The Effects of Teachers’ Learning
Styles on Teaching
Learning Style Effect on Teaching
The This teacher will encourage
Bodily/Kinesthetic experiential learning and have
Learner lots of movement in class. It
may be a challenge to both the
logical learner and the
intrapersonal learner.

The Intrapersonal This teacher will be a great

Learner support for the student who
has trouble functioning in
groups.

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The Effects of Teachers’ Learning
Styles on Teaching

Learning Style Effect on Teaching

The This teacher will tend to have a
Musical/Rhythmic relaxed classroom but may find it
Learner harder to relate to those students
who are not “in tune with” music.
This teacher generally uses
The Interpersonal cooperative learning in the
Learner classroom. Students will feel free to
interact and are expected to do so;
perfect for the extrovert.
Be sensitive to the students who need to be alone in order
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to create, to learn, or just to be .
Integration of M.I.
&Technology
The Positive Effects

• Students find topics more interesting when information is presented in a

variety of ways.

• Students feel more comfortable and motivated when they know that their
learning styles will be addressed.

• Students believe their learning has more meaning when the way in which
they learn and present new information is acknowledged.

• Students are more challenged, engaged, and independent.

• Students have more control over what and how they learn (self pacing).

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Integration of M.I.
&Technology
The Positive Effects

• Students gain a greater sense of responsibility

for their work.
• Students remain on task for longer periods of
time.
• Students produce higher quality work, that
reflects the increased depth and breadth of their
knowledge and talents.
• Students become better at critical thinking,
organizing & evaluating information, and
presenting their new knowledge in creative ways.

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The Last Words….

If he/she is indeed wise [the teacher]

does not bid you enter the house of his
wisdom, but rather leads you to the
threshold of your own mind.
Khalil Gibran in The Prophet

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THANK YOU

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Quiz Questions
1. Charlie Chaplin is extraordinary
example of the following intelligence:
– Visual Spatial
– Bodily – Kinaesthetic
– Musical rhythmic

2. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan is great

examples of this intelligence:
• Logical Mathematical
• Naturalist
• Intrapersonal 30
Quiz Questions
3. Pablo Picasso and the architect Frank Lloyd Wright had the
following capacity in great measure:
– Visual Spatial intelligence
– Logical Mathematical intelligence
– Verbal Linguistic intelligence
4. The famous lawyer Ed Greenspoon and the chess champion
Gary Kasparov have the following intelligence in common:
• Interpersonal
• Verbal Linguistic
• Logical Mathematical
5. Former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau and talk show
host Oprah Winfrey are examples of :
– Bodily – Kinaesthetic intelligence
– Interpersonal intelligence
– Intrapersonal intelligence

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