Multiple Intelligence
by Darra Turner
1. A popular misconception is that learning styles is a useful classroom application of multiple intelligences theory.
2. Everything can be taught in more than one way. And anything that’s understood can be shown in more than one way. I don’t believe that because there are eight intelligence's we have to teach things eight ways.
3. It’s a theory that was developed to document the fact that human beings have very different kinds of intellectual strengths and that these strengths are very, very important in how kids learn and how people represent things in their minds, and then how people use them in order to show what it is that they’ve understood.
4. Intelligence
5. What are some fun but educational ways to incorporate the multiple intelligence theory into the classroom lessons?
6. This theory is often misunderstood.
7. There are eight intelligence's: Verbal-linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Visual-Spatial, Musical, Naturalistic, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal
8. Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence's and is a fun way to learn about how some of our tastes and interests can influence how we take in information.
9. People do not have just an intellectual capacity, but have many kinds of intelligence.
