CONTENT

• BACKGROUND OF THE THIORIST H.GARDNER• THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES• THE TYPES OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES• MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IN CLASSROOM

HOWARD GARDNER (born 11 July 1943 ) is an American development psychologist.He was a professor of cognition and Education at HarvardHe is the founding father of the theory of Multiple intelligence

BACKGROUND

The theory of multiple intelligences

•The theory was developed in 1993, sets that “we all have various levels of intelligence across range of intellectual areas”

•It suggests that traditional ways of testing for intelligence may be based to certain types of individuals

•Originally there were seven domains of intelligence

• Though later he mentioned two other intelligences :

Naturalistic Intelligence

Multiple intelligence

The capacity to use language to express what is on your mind and to understand other people

Linguistic Musical

The capacity to think in music and be able to hear patterns, recognize them, and perhaps composing

Logical / Mathematical

The ability to understand and to enjoy maths science and any logical-based pursuits

Visual / spatial

The ability to present things with image internally in your mind

KinaestheticCapacity to use your whole or parts of your body , to solve problem , make something .

intrapersonal

having an understanding of yourself , knowing who you are , what you can do , ect...

interpersonal

the ability to understand and communicate with other people.

Naturalistic

The ability to recognize patterns and classification in the natural environment.

The ability to understand and asking questions about live , death and ultimate realties

Existential

Multiple intelligences in classroom

Each child has his own intelligence, for instance a child may have the logical and mathematical intelligence and therefore he is able to deal with mathematical problems easily but , he has not enough of linguistics intelligence to understand grammar and vise versa.

• The teachers then, face many problems while dealing with class activities.

• The teachers have to plan for multiple intelligences to give opportunities to the children different intelligences’ strengths.

• That can be applied when the teacher asks himself certain questions such as :

How can I include music sounds, rhyme, rhythms?

• For instance a teacher prefer to include a song in the lesson of parts of the body appeallling to the music and Kinaesthetic intelligences

• Multiple intelligences affect mostly in intellectual dimension because it refers to the skills each one of us has and can develop

• Thus, they affect in all dimensions because they are related to each other

• know our most developed intelligences can help us find activities in which we can be productive, feel happy, help others…

• And fit better in social roles

Intelligence is an ability it can increase through your life you just have to practice