Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Thus far Gardner's work suggests nine intelligences. He speculates that there may be many more yet to be identified. Time will tell. These are the paths to children's learning teachers can address in their classrooms right now.

VERBAL/LINGUISTIC –

These children demonstrate strength in the language arts: speaking, writing, reading, listening. These students have always been successful in traditional classrooms because their intelligence lends itself to traditional teaching.

Verbal /Linguistic word smart

Verbal/Linguistic Book Smart

Books on Tape

Blogs Interactive journals

Mad Libs Fill in interactive forms with parts of speech to create wacky storiesCreate your own crossword www.puzzlemaker.comwww.crosswordpuzzlegames.comPlay Scrabble on line www.scrabble.comGAMES: Scrabble, Boggle, Outburst, Scattergories, Trivial Pursuit, Upwards

MATHEMATICAL/LOGICAL - children who display an aptitude for numbers, reasoning and problem solving. This is the other half of the children who typically do well in traditional classrooms where teaching is logically sequenced and students are asked to conform.

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Logical/mathematical Numbers reasoning smart

Math Mania http://csr.uvic.ca/!mmania work on unsolved problems in mathematicsMathematics Archives http://archives.math.utk.eduwww.msichicago.org Virtual Visits Museum of Science and Industry Popular Science Online www.popsci.comScience Magazine on line http://sciencemag.org

GAMES: Bingo, Clue, Connect Four, YahtzeeWhere in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

VISUAL/SPATIAL – children who learn best visually and organizing things spatially. They like to see what you are talking about in order to understand. They enjoy charts, graphs, maps, tables, illustrations, art, puzzles, costumes -anything eye catching.

Visual/Spatial Picture smart

Clip art photography www.kodak.comCinemania http://cinemania.msn.comReviews the latest film releases, interviews, pollsArtist’s resource www.number9.com databases on artists and how to display one’s art work on the site Computer software: Tetris, 3D Home Architect, Adobe Photo, VideoWave GAMES: TicTacToe, Battleship, Pictionary, Stratego

BODILY/KINESTHETIC - children who experience learning best through activity: games, movement, hands-on tasks, building. These children were often labeled "overly active" in traditional classrooms where they were told to sit and be still!

Bodily/Kinesthetic Body smart

TPR Total Physical Response method (Blaine Ray)activities where students move around the roomComputer software: Active Software, Flight Simulator, arcade games, sports software, Legos Science ToolkitGAMES: Guesstures, Jenga, Twister

TPR

INTRAPERSONAL - children who are especially in touch with their own feelings, values and ideas. They may tend to be more reserved, but they are actually quite intuitive about what they learn and how it relates to themselves.

Intrapersonal People smart

Association for the Study of Dreams www.ASDreams.orgFocusing Institute www.focusing.orgactivities where students discuss and respond to how they learn bestComputer software: What color is your parachute? Career Finder, Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover, Emotional IQ test, Personality Test, Myst, RivenGAMES: Careers, Life, Risk, True Colors

INTERPERSONAL – children who are noticeably

people oriented and outgoing, and do their learning cooperatively

in groups or with a partner. These children may have typically been identified as

"talkative" or " too concerned about being social“

in a traditional setting

Interpersonal Self mart

Community service tutoringAmnesty InternationalPeace Corps www.peacecorps.govComputer software: mail list programs, Family Tree Maker, electronic versions of board games on line, GAMES: Family Feud, Ouija, Scruples, Life Stories

MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC – children who learn well through

songs, patterns, rhythms, instruments and

musical expression. It is easy to overlook children with this intelligence

in traditional education.

Library of Musical Links www.wco.com/~jrush/musicComputer software: Desktop Sheet Music, Interactive Guitar, Teach Me Piano, Exploratorium (Music literature tutors)GAMES: Encore, (Name-that-Song Game) Simon, Song Burst (Complete-the Lyric Game)

Musical/ Rhythmic Music smart

NATURALIST children who love the outdoors,

animals, field trips.More than this, though, these students

love to pick up on subtle differences in meanings

The traditional classroom has not been accommodating to these children

Naturalist Nature smart

National Audubon Society www.audubon.orgNational Geographic Society www.nationalgeographic.comThe Nature Company www.natureco.com/index.html Sierra Club www.sierraclub.org

Existential existence smart

Association for Research and Enlightment www.are-cayce.comAssociation for Transpersonal Psychology www.igc.org/atpFoundation for Mind Research www.jeanhouston.org/foundation.htmlInsight Meditation Society www.dharma.org/ims.htm

EXISTENTIALIST – children who learn in the context of where

humankind stands in the "big picture" of existence.

They ask "Why are we here?" and "What is our role in the world?"

This intelligence is seen in the discipline of philosophy.

Email: plamontagne@palmertrinity.org

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