How Are You Smart?Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

IT IS NOT - - HOW SMART ARE YOU?

Stanford Binet IQ

Scholastic Aptitude

Who is Smart?

• Theory introduced by Howard Gardner in 1983

• People are not born with all of the intelligence that they will ever have

• Intelligence can be learned throughout life

• Everyone is intelligent in at least eight different ways and can develop each aspect of intelligence to an average level of competency

OVERVIEW OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE

HOW ARE YOU SMART?

Take a moment to reflect upon your history of your own intelligence

Dee Ann - Back in the Day…..• Played Flute/Piccolo• Sang in Church Choir• Played Softball• Very Social• Wrote in Journals

Multiple Intelligences

Word SmartNumber SmartPicture SmartMusic SmartBody SmartPeople SmartSelf SmartNature Smart

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEN

Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

Listens and responds to the spoken word

Enjoys reading, writing, and discussing

Remembers what has been said

Remembers what has been read

Speaks and writes effectively

Can learn other languages

Famous People With Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

•William Shakespeare

•Edgar Allen Poe

•Earnest Hemmingway

•F. Scott Fitzgerald

•Emily Dickinson

•Agatha Christie

•T.S. Eliot

•Rudyard Kipling

Activities Students Would Enjoy….

•Letter writing•Storytelling•Discussing•Creative writing•Debating•Persuading

•Book Reporting•Telling Jokes•Writing Words•Reading•Journal Writing•Speaking

Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

Is familiar with the concepts of quantity, time, and cause and effect.

Uses abstract symbols to represent concrete objects and concepts.

Likes math and using technology to solve complex problems.

Expresses interest in careers such as accounting, computer technology, and law.

Famous People With Logical/Mathematic Intelligence

• Einstein• Pythagoras• Newton• Pascal• Archimedes• Euclid• Copernicus• Plato• Galileo• Aristotle

Activities Students Would Enjoy….

•Reasoning

•Time Lines

•Synthesis

•Sequencing

•Rational Thinking

•Scientific Thinking

•Venn Diagrams

•Analyzing

•Categorizing

•Formulas

•Logic Games

•Outlining

•Problem Solving

•Patterns

Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

Prefers to touch, handle, or manipulate what is to be learned

Develops coordination and a sense of timing

Learns best by direct involvement and participation

Remembers most clearly what was done, rather than what was said or observed

Famous People With Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

• Babe Ruth• Kristi Yamaguchi• Shawn Johnson• Joe Montana•Mickey Mantle•Carrie Ann Inaba•Johnny Weir

Activities Students Would Enjoy….•Impersonations

•Inventing

•Martial Arts

•Miming

•Puppetry

•Visiting

•Exercise

•Acting

•Charades

•Collections

•Demonstrations

•Experiments

•Field Trips

•Gymnastics

Visual/Spatial Intelligence

Learns by seeing and observing

Recognizes faces, objects, shapes, colors, details, and scenes

Thinks in pictures and visualizes detail

Uses visual images as an aid in recalling information

Enjoys doodling, drawing, painting, sculpting, or otherwise reproducing objects in visible form

Famous People With Visual/Spatial Intelligence

• Leonardo Da Vinci

•Pablo Picasso

•Spike Lee

•Vincent Van Gogh

•Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)

•Steven Spielberg

•Ansel Adams

•Michaelangelo

Activities Students Would Enjoy….•Painting

•Photography

•Posters

•Pretending

•Sculpting

•Visualization

•Idea Sketching

•Labeling

•Brochures

•Collages

•Designs

•Drawings

•Flow Charts

•Mapping

•Molding Clay

•Patterns

Musical Intelligence

Listens and responds with interest to a variety of sounds including the human voice, environmental sounds, and music, and organizes such sounds into meaningful patterns

Is eager to be around and learn from music and musicians

Develops the ability to sing and/or play an instrument

Famous People With Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

•Ludwig van Beethoven •Ray Charles•Robert Schumann•Sergei Rachmaninoff•Yehudi Menuhin•Willie Nelson •The Mavericks•Lawerence Welk•George Gershwin

Activities Students Would Enjoy….

•Instrumental sounds

•Listening

•Mood Music

•Music Composition

•Musical Performance

•Percussion and Raps

•Reproduce sounds and rhythms

•Singing

•Create Chants

•Create Concept Songs

•Environmental Sounds

•Humming

•Illustrate With Sounds

•Vocal Sounds and Tonal Patterns

Interpersonal Intelligence

Bonds with parents and interacts with others

Forms and maintains social relationships

Perceives feelings, thoughts, motivations, behaviors, and lifestyles of others

Expresses an interest in careers such as teaching, social work, counseling, management, or politics

Famous People With Interpersonal Intelligence

• Abraham Lincoln      

•George Washington       

•Ghandi

•Dr.Joyce Brothers     

•Oprah  Winfrey      

•Jesse  Jackson

•Martin Luther King      

•Rev. Billy Graham

Activities Students Would Enjoy….

•Learning from someone outside of school

•Creating group rules

•Acting in a play or simulation

•Conducting an interview

•Sensing others’ motives

•Understanding other's feelings

•Person-to-person communication

•Group projects

•Teaching someone else something new

•Creating "phone buddies" for homework

Intrapersonal Intelligence

Aware of his range of emotions

Motivated to identify and pursue goals

Works independently

Establishes and lives by an ethical value system

Strives for self-actualization

Famous People With Intrapersonal Intelligence

•Aristotle

•Emily Dickinson

•General George Patton

•Helen Keller

•Malcolm X

•Mohammed

•Maya Angelou

Activities Students Would Enjoy….

Autobiography

Concentration

Goal Setting

Independent Study

Free-Choice Time

Thinking Strategies

Expression of Feelings

Naturalist Intelligence

Recognizes and can name many different types of trees, flowers, and plants

Has an interest in and good knowledge of how the body works and keeps abreast of health issues

Is conscious of tracks, nests, and wildlife on a walk and can “read” weather signs

Has an understanding of, and interest in, the main global environmental issues

Famous People With Naturalist Intelligence

• Louis Pasteur

•John Muir

•Jack Hanna

•Charles Darwin

•John Burroughs

•Steve Irwin

•John Lyons

•Cherry Hill

Activities Students Would Enjoy….

•Planting/Gardening

•Having Class Outdoors

•Ecological Studies

•Animal Care

•Nature Walks

•Camping

•Outdoor Field Trip

•Nature Collections

HOW ARE YOU SMART?•Take a moment to reflect upon your present multiple intelligences

•Go to Birmingham Grid for Learning http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm

OR• Google Multiple Intelligence Test (look for bgfl in the web address)

DEE ANN’S MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES TODAY

Applications Dr. Gardner says that our schools focus on linguistic and

logical-mathematical intelligence

Leads to kids being labeled as “learning disabled” or “hyperactive” when they may not be

Theory of multiple intelligences suggests that teachers be trained to present their lessons in a wide variety of ways using music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, inner reflection, and much more

The Key is ….

Don’t try to fit MI into a box.

As educators we must teach the whole child and work to address all intelligences and their many facets.

Implementing Gardner

Lesson Design – Using all or different intelligences and asking students for opinions on them

Student Projects – Students can learn to "initiate and manage complex projects" when they are creating student projects.

Assessments – Devised to allow students to show what they have learned.

Implementing Gardner

Misuses Trying to teach all concepts or subjects using all

intelligences Using an intelligence as a background for other

activities Direct evaluation or grading of intelligences without

regard to context.

Implementing Gardner

Common Good Uses (from Gardner himself)

“Cultivate those skills and capabilities that are valued in the community and in the broader society.”

“It makes far more sense to spend a significant amount of time on key concepts, generative ideas, and essential questions and to allow students to become familiar with these notions and their implications.”

“At the heat of this perspective- in theory and in practice- inheres in taking human difference seriously.”

References

Armstrong, Thomas. Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 2nd Ed.. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2000.

Birmingham Grid for Learning Multiple Intelligences Test. Retrieved from http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/questions.cfm

Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1983

Kagan & Kagan. Multiple Intelligences: The Complete Handbook. 1998. Kagan Cooperative Learning. San Clemente, CA

How Are You Smart?Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom