MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
THEORY
By Tamika and Amanda

THEORIST
oward Gardner
Known for his Multiple Intelligence Theory
nvolved in the design of performance-based assessments;
education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences
to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and
pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in
education.

HOWARD GARDNER
raduate professor at Harvard
onorary degrees from twenty-nine colleges and universities, including
institutions in Bulgaria, Chile, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, South
Korea and Spain.
00 most influential public intellectuals in the world
eceived a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981

THE THEORY: AT A GLANCE
ach person is smart in all seven types of intelligence.
very person is stronger in some ways and less developed in others.
“Heredity and genetics influence the way the brain is neurologically "wired"
before birth and are contributing factors that determine the strongest types of
intelligence. This is often seen in children with very strong and overt talents
demonstrated at very young ages, such as Mozart, who had started to play and
compose music by age five.”

KEY POINTS
intelligences

CHART
http://otec.uoregon.edu/intelligence.htm

CLASSROOM IMPLICATIONS
-What the teacher does under this theory
• Teachers can use this theory to create a curriculum based
around several types of learning.
• Having kids Act out a lesson through props can include
bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal
intelligences.
• Use technology that enhances visual/spatial, musical and
linguistic learners. These can include the use of speakers on
a computer to relay audio from a video.
• Using manipulates (such as I pads with learning apps) can
include several intelligences.

CLASSROOM IMPLICATIONS
--What the students do under this theory
• Recognize your own learning strengths and weaknesses
according to the intelligences you learn best with.
• Develop the weak parts by including learning methods that pertain
to those weak parts. For example, you are music smart, but lack in
number smarts. You could learn numbers through a song to learn
something quickly. In order to strengthen your number smarts, focus
on logical thinking and analyzing.
• Students can learn through different intelligences and can develop
each individual intelligence through diverse learning.

MY OPINIONS
would like all of my students to develop diverse intelligences. I have
the ability to do this by incorporating the intelligences into my lesson
plans. I can assess what intelligences my students possess and
challenge them with new ones.
• “Child-centered teaching, open-ended projects, cross-curricular
activities, independent study, learning center activities, multimodal
work, group projects, discovery learning and authentic assessment are
some techniques that embrace Gardner's theory of multiple
intelligence teaching.”

CREDITS
To learn more information, please visit these
websites. It is recommended that all teachers
learn about this theory.
Picture taken from :http://www.preschools4all.com/howard-gardner.html
Additional websites:
http://questgarden.com/102/80/0/100505170056/index.htm
http://www.ehow.com/about_4597747_what-multiple-intelligence-teaching.html
http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-schools-strategies
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=251
http://howardgardner.com/