Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

Topics

• Brief MI theory• Types of MI• Educational application• Test yourself

What do you define ‘intelligence’?

Multiple Intelligences

• It is not necessary that a particular aptitude in one intelligence will not be necessarily demonstrated a comparable aptitude in another intelligence.

• Intelligences and skills can be developed in diverse ways through relevant experiences.

Criteria for identification of an intelligence

Criteria for identification of an intelligence

9 intelligences

9 intelligences

Existential An ability to reflect an individual’s capacity for considering ‘big questions’ about life, death, love, and being.

MI’s concept

• Individuals do demonstrate variation in their levels of strength and weakness across the intelligences.

• All individuals possess the full range of intelligences.

• No one precisely shows the same profile of intellectual strengths and weaknesses.

MI in education

• How does the theory contribute to education?

• How can MI be applied in the curriculum?

Integrating curricula with MI- Fogarty, R. 2008

• 10 models suggested• How to apply as MI in a curriculum as

thematic and threaded approaches.

Theme

Theme

• Tandem model – integration of two basic models as webbed and threaded

Thread

• Combine life skills into standard subject content as enduring learnings, thinking skills, habits of mind, reading skills, social skills, organizing skills, multiple intelligences, artistic skills, and technological skills.

Tandems: webbed theme/threaded life skills

• P.162 fig 4.20

Assessment

MI vs. LS

• P. 191

References

• Gardner, H. Multiple Intelligences. http://howardgardner.com/

• Fogarty, R. 2008. Integrating Curricula with Multiple Intelligences. Corwin Press.

Test yourself

• Work on handout to find out your intelligences’ strengths and weaknesses

• samples of ways to experience learning and activities which suit you.

• http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/what.cfm