Multiple IntelligencesBy: Briana Wilson

OverviewWho: Howard Gardner is the creator of the theoryWhat: Multiple intelligences is the ability for students to learn through different learning stylesImportance: Each child is going to have a different learning style and it is important to understand the different ways in which students learn so you can try and teach to these different learning habits. By teaching to a variety of learning styles, you are then giving each child a fair chance at learning

My Interest and HypothesisI choose this topic because

It is important to know how to teach to all the learning styles

To give children a fair chance at learning, a teacher needs to understand the different learning styles and how to use them

It makes your lesson plans more fun if you can add a variety to them

I was planning to learn about the Gardner’s life, the intelligences and the controversies

ResearchThe internet was the main resource I used,

but I was able to look up books on google books and read them, watch interviews on YouTube, and find documents with information

I found a lot of qualitative data, but for the specific area of my subject that I was researching, I could not find any quantitative data. If my research focused more on the testing, policies, and government involvement then I would have had more quantitative data.

The Intelligences 1. Linguistic: word smart2. Logical: Mathematical- reasoning, logic and

scientific processing3. Musical: sensitive to rhythm and sound4. Bodily: Kinesthetic- hands on and body

movement5. Visual-Spatial: art6. Interpersonal: interacts with others7. Intrapersonal: interactions with yourself8. Naturalist: relates to the environment

Questionable IntelligencesThere are two intelligences that are

questionableMoralSpiritual

No ways to define them yet

ControversiesAgainst ForNo way to test multiple

intelligencesSome intelligences are

talents and not actual learning stylesExamples: Bodily

Kinesthetic leads to athletes and musical leads to musicians

People do not like change

Allows teachers to be creative when making lesson plans

Tests are bias and not all people perform well on tests

Gardner believes we can change the school system in 3 ways

1. Political commitment2. Society needs to see child

centered education working3. Assessments needs to be

designed to show children are learning

Once I began my research I steered away from learning about Gardner’s life. I felt it was more important to focus more on the intelligences themselves

BiasI may not like a certain intelligence and because I may

not like I may not include it in any of my lesson plans .Future use

My findings will affect my future teaching career because I am going to be more aware of the different learning styles which means I will make different lesson plans that appeal to them and I will have to make sure I am not bias towards the learning styles I am not so fond of.

Multiple Intelligences Test and Results

Questions?