LESSON 2: MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE

INTELLIGENCE TYPE AND

DEFINITION

INTELLIGENCE
AREA

STRONG IN

LEARNS BEST
BY

LIKES

COMMON
MISBEHAVIOR

1. MUSIC SMART

Capacity to perceive,
discriminate,
transform, & express
musical forms.
Ability to think in
music and to hear
patterns and
recognize, remember,
and maybe manipulate
these patterns.
Sensitivity to rhythm,
pitch, melody, or
timbre of a musical
piece.

2. BODY SMART

Expert in using ones

body to express ideas
and feeling & use of
hands to
produce/transform
things.
Capacity to use the

Musical or
Rhythm

Singing
Picking up
sounds
Melodies
Rhythm

Singing
Humming
Playing an
instrument
Listening to
music

Rhythm
Melody
Singing
Listening to
music

Feet or pencil
tapping

Athletics
Dancing
Acting
Crafts
Tool Usage

Playing sports
Dancing
Moving around
Touching and
talking
Using body

Moving
Processing
knowledge
via bodily
sensations

Bodily or
Kinesthetic

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Wandering
around the
room

body or its parts to

solve a problem, to
make something, or to
put on some kind of
production.

language

3. NUMBER SMART

Capacity to use
numbers effectively and
reason out well.
Sensitive to logical
patterns and
relationships,
statements and
propositions, and
functions and other
related abstractions.

4. WORD SMART

Capacity to use words

effectively, either orally
or written.
Capacity to use
language, both yours
and others, to express
whats on your minds,
and to understand
others.
Ability to manipulate
the syntax (structure),

Logical or
Mathematical

Mathematics
Solving
problems
Reasoning
Problem solving Questioning
Reasoning
Working with
number
experiment
Using a
computer

Reading
Writing
Memorizing
dates
Story-telling
Word thinking

Working
Working on
with
Math in class
patterns and
relationship
Classifying
Abstract
reasoning

Verbal or
Intelligence

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Reading
Writing
Talking
Doing word
puzzles

Reading
Hearing
Speaking
Discussing
writing

Passing notes
Reading during
classes

phonology (sound),
semantics (meaning),
and pragmatic
dimensions (practice
use) of language.
5. PICTURE SMART

Perceiving the visualspatial world accurately

& doing
transformations upon
those projections.
Perceiving the spatial
world internally (mind).
Involves sensitivity to
colors, lines, shapes,
forms, space, and other
relationship between
those elements.
Able to visualize, to
represent graphically
visual/spatial ideas, &
to orient oneself in a
spatial matrix.

6. PEOPLE SMART

Perceives &makes
distinctions in the
moods, intentions,
motivations, and

Reading maps
Charts
Drawing
Puzzles
Imagining
things

Designing
Drawing
Creating
Daydreaming

Visual or
Spatial

Doodling,
drawing, or
daydreamin
g in class

Working
with
pictures or
icons
Colors
Drawing
Doodling

Sharing
Comparing
Relating

Talking in class
Passing notes

Interpersonal
or Social
Understanding Having friends
people
Talking to
Leading
people
organizations

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Resolving
conflicts

feelings of others.
Sensitive to facial
expression, voice, &
gestures.
Capacity for
discriminating among
many different kinds of
interpersonal cues & to
respond effectively to
those in some
pragmatic way.
Understanding people.

Joining groups

Interviewing
Cooperating

Working alone
Reflecting
Pursuing
interests

Working
alone
Self paced
projects
Reflecting

7. SELF SMART

Understands self
Utilizes the inner self
to activate goals and
intentions.
Sets activities by
identifying his/her
weaknesses or
strengths.

8. NATURE SMART

Understanding
self
Recognizing
Intrapersonal
strengths &
or Introspective
weaknesses
Setting goals

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Ability to perceive
and make
distinctions in the
actions that has an
effect, directly or
indirectly, on ones

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Conflict with
others

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environment.
Interest is caught by
natures
Dedicated on nature
preservation and
maintenance
Environmentally
sensitive

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
Howard Gardner faculties or
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ANDRAGOGY is the art and

science of helping adults to
learn

originally identified 7
intelligences

Recent advantages in cognitive

science, developmental
psychology, and neuroscience
suggest that each persons level of
intelligence is actually made up of
autonomous faculties that can work
individually or in concert with other
faculties.
NATURALIST INTELLIGENCE is
the newly added intelligence type.

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PEDAGOGY is the art and

science of helping children to
learn.
EIGHT FACULTIES OF INTELLIGENCE
1. Nature Smart

Naturalist

2. People Smart

Interpersonal

3. Number Smart -

Logical/Mathematical

4. Picture Smart -

Visual/Spatial

5. Self Smart

Intrapersonal

6. Body Smart

Bodily Kinesthetic

7. Music Smart

Musical

8. Word Smart

Linguistic

EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Levels an instructors teaching strategies to the
learners intelligent type.
The teacher selects and provides appropriate
experience whereby the learner can discover
relationships between elements in various

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situations and understanding them as a whole in

an organized and unified pattern.
Teachers previews the activities involves and
the problems to be encountered.
Focuses on teaching students to think
effectively.
Teaching must be student-/learner-/childcentered and problem-centered.