Today you were given a handout that described Howard Gardener's theory of intelligence.
Linguistic: the ability to use language to express one's thoughts and to understand other people orally or in writing.
Musical: the ability to hear music in one's head, and to hear tones, rhythms, and larger musical patterns
Logical-mathematical: the ability to manipulate numbers, quantities and operation accompanied by a love of dealing with abstraction
Spatial: the ability to represent the spatial world visually in one's mind
Bodily kinesthetic: the ability to use the whole body or parts of the body to solve a problem, create a product, or put on some kind of production.
Intrapersonal: the ability to know and understand one's self, including goals, tendencies, talents, limitations
Interpersonal: the ability to notice and make distinctions among other individuals; a strong understanding of other people
Naturalist: the ability to discriminate among living things and to see patterns; also, a sensitivity to features of the natural world
You were presented with four biographies of prominant people in the world: Michael Jordan, Mohandas Gandhi, Charles Darwin and Oprah Winfrey. These people do not posess a 'traditional' definition of intelligence. In your response you would have reasoned why that would be and discussed their type of intelligence.
You then should have taken a look at your own type of intelligence. You would have answered three questions:
a) 1. In which of Gardner’s intelligences do you believe that you excel? What evidence can you show?
2. How does this affect the way you currently approach learning and school assignments?
3. How might the theory of multiple intelligences affect your thinking about your future?
You then would have taken a Multiple Intelligences test to see how your results matches your personal perspective on what type of intelligence was most prominant for you.
