Howard Gardner is a professor at Harvard who has studied the idea of intelligence in a way that links research and personal experience (Traub 1). He began speaking about “multiple intelligence’s” in 1983. Since then, he has won a Macarthur “genius” grant, he has written books, which have been translated into twenty languages, and he gives about seventy-five speeches a year (Truab 1). His ideas have been backed and popularized by many groups seeking to reform the current educational system. The idea is we know a child who scores well on tests is smart, but that doesn’t mean a child who does not score well is not getting the information or is incapable of getting it (Traub1). Gardner’s goal is to turn what we normally think of as intelligence into…
Each person has their own personal framework of intelligences, some stronger than others, and a mixture of these intelligences may be accessed during learning not just one type. Educators can make use of these intelligences by creating an environment of material suitable to several intelligences. So if movement, images, writing, and numbers are combined to teach a topic, this will lay a path for students to learn according to their strengths of several intelligences. So the teaching experience, although delivered to all in the same manner, will be received and processed uniquely by each student. The following Table 4 lists the current intelligences according to Gardner though as the world changes so maybe digital or technological intelligences may be added…
It’s easy to see that people think and learn differently, but Howard Gardner of Harvard University has gone deeper and farther with that idea than any have before. According to his Multiple Intelligences Theory, there are nine different intelligences. These intelligences describe how people think and learn, and everyone is a unique blend of all nine learning styles. You may lean towards one or two, but you still use all of them, often at the same time. These intelligences are Verbal-Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Musical, Visual-Spatial, Existential, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Naturalistic, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal. People who are strong in different intelligences learn best different ways, and Gardner has said that he thinks schools only…
possesses a unique combination of multiple intelligences. All students have different learning attitudes, styles, preferences and ideals.…
A teacher can use a combination of educational theories in a classroom. The teacher can build upon the students’ knowledge and emphasize problem solving and the teacher can also use the Social Learning theory with Modeling. The teacher can model the behavior to the student and use positive and negative reinforcements with Behaviorism. One can also use Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence in the classroom too. Gardner’s theory “has eight domains of intelligence (Linguistic, Logical, Spatial, Bodily Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, and Naturalistic) according to Bee and Boyd, 2010. The different types of intelligence can be used in daily lessons throughout the day.…
The beginning of the school year is possibly one of the most stressful experiences for a student to endure due to mandatory placement testing—ultimately deciding where and what level a student belongs to based upon their test scores. However, what if a student does not do well on the placement testing because the subjects that the educational system deem ‘intelligent’ are not the student’s strongest attribute? Based upon the low score, the educational system would declare that student to be unintelligent. But is that student really unintelligent? Or are we “brain-washed to restrict the notion of intelligence to the capacities used in solving logical and linguistic problems”(Gardner), thus believing in being unintelligent? Doctor Howard Gardner, who published his opinion on intelligence in Frames of Mind during the nineteen-eighties, theorized that the intelligence of a human being is not defined by one particular capability, but is defined by multiple capabilities. Although many criticize that there is little evidence to prove that Doctor Howard Gardner’s theory is true, I cannot help but find the points that Gardner argues in his publication to be very plausible and relatable to my own personal experiences.…
The purpose of this paper is to explore Howard Gardner’s theory on multiple intelligences. I will focus on spatial and bodily-kinesthetic intelligences and how linguistic intelligence has an underlying effect on the other intelligences. Spatial and bodily-kinesthetic intelligences would seem to be very distant from linguistic intelligence, however I believe that they are more similar then one might expect.…
In 1983 a professor of education at Harvard University, Dr. Howard Gardner, developed the theory of multiple intelligences. This theory states that there are eight different ways in which a person is intelligent. These different forms of intelligence are as follows: linguistic, or word smart; logical-mathematic, or reasoning/numbers smart; spatial, or picture smart; bodily-kinesthetic, or body smart; musical, or music smart; intrapersonal, or self-smart; and naturalist, or nature smart (“Multiple Intelligences” para. 1-2). It is not difficult to pinpoint which of these intelligences standardized testing primarily measures. For students who are not linguistically or mathematically gifted, the tests do not accurately show the students’…
Gardner’s intelligence theory comes from a book he wrote and published titled Frames of Mind (1983). Gardner’s theory on the seven intelligences was quickly adapted by the educational and training fields to help educators and trainers to understand personalities, intelligence, and learning styles. This has enabled educators and trainers to narrow in on how to teach and grasp the attention of all their students and trainees. Whereas encouraging and motivating them by understanding how they learn and the best way to teach them. Gardner’s theories and concepts are aids to understanding overall personalities and strengths. These theories and concepts are all easily understood and can be incorporated into almost any educational or training situation, to better assist in the education and training process. Sometimes combining more than one intelligence helps in finding the best way to educate and train individuals all over the world.…
According to Howard Gardner in “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century”, intelligence is defined as a “biopsychological potential to process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve problems or create products that are of value in a culture” (33-34). Gardner further explained it by saying that intelligences are potentials “that will or will not be activated, depending on the values of a particular culture, the opportunities available in that culture, and the personal choices made by individuals and/or their families, schoolteachers, and others” (34). He goes on to say that intelligence is not a single faculty and that many types of intelligences exist and operate with different capacities…
Society that is all about being included and being accepted and of looking at individual strengths of each child in an educational setting, it is only natural that we tend to look to the “genius” of each student. The use of the term "genius" in this context redefines the usual perspectives and asks us to stretch our understanding to include the potential capabilities of every learner and what it is that they bring with them to make a unique individual worth developing. In his book Awakening Genius in the Classroom, Thomas Armstrong coaxes each reader to examine his or her own belief system and to see "genius" as a conceptualization of the best that we each have to offer. The redefining of a commonly understood word in this way is a strategy modeled after Howard Gardner in his explanation of multiple intelligences (1983).…
The theory distinguishes eight kinds of intelligence” (Kowalski & Westen, 2009). “ Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory has helped educators to reflect on their practice, and given them a basis to broaden their focus and to attend to what might assist people to live their lives well” (Smith, 2002, 2008). “It has helped a significant number of educators to question their work and to encourage them to look beyond the narrow confines of the dominant discourses of skilling, curriculum, and testing.” (Smith, 2002, 2008). The three intelligences linguistic, logical-mathematical, and interpersonal have given me the ability to express myself through being verbal and through writing. They have allowed me to have a better self understanding. They have also giving me high social skills which allows me to be outgoing and set apart from a group. I am a very good problem solving and I am able to use these skills in every aspects of my life. They have helped me the most to succeed at work. Where I work at I have use my problem solving skills a lot. My teacher this year even had me to help her teach the kids different math skill because some of them could get it how she said it and some needed to hear it how I would solve it. I am very outgoing sot I am used a lot at work to fill in gaps. I think these three intelligences make me who I am today. I think these…
Gardner provides a theory of multiple intelligences states people have nine different types of intelligences. In addition, people express these intelligences in different ways and different strategies. In addition,…
It has come to my attention that you have concerns with integrating arts into the curriculum. I would like to take this time to show you what I have collected along the way of learning more about how important integrating the arts can be and the positive impact it will have on any classroom and school as a whole. We have been looking for something to help raise test scores, to help students become critical thinkers and to allow for each student to grow as individuals and be prepared in this competitive society. Integrating arts into the curriculum will be our ticket to getting all of these things accomplished. Right now, we have art class isolated as a separate subject. Although I do understand that we should be thankful that the district hasn’t cut our arts program, we should be taking advantage of this by trying to use the arts as a process to connect teaching subjects in the classroom. Teaching through the arts not only supports a positive learning environment, but it will address student-centered learning and will impact the diverse learning needs of each student. I will explain and give examples of significant instructional strategies that are based on practicing integrating the arts along with culturally responsive pedagogy. I will also discuss how students learning styles and multiple perspectives are encouraged. Lastly, I will show evidence of academic and cognitive outcomes of a lesson I have taught using the arts and how the instruction was linked to state standards. My new knowledge and understanding of integrating the arts and multiple intelligence approaches to classroom learning impact my every day teaching and has enabled me to take my teaching to a higher level. As I’ve read in the book, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong (2009):…
In the heyday of the psychometric and behaviorist eras, it was generally believed that intelligence was a single entity that was inherited; and that human beings - initially a blank slate - could be trained to learn anything, provided that it was presented in an appropriate way. Nowadays an increasing number of researchers believe precisely the opposite; that there exists a multitude of intelligences, quite independent of each other; that each intelligence has its own strengths and constraints; that the mind is far from unencumbered at birth; and that it is unexpectedly difficult to teach things that go against early 'naive ' theories of that challenge the natural lines of force within an intelligence and its matching domains. (Gardner 1993: xxiii)…