SUMMARY OF DIFFERENT THEORIES

THEORY WHAT IS/ARE THE HOW LEARNINGS GOAL/S OF

NATURE AND HAPPEN LEARNING
CHARACTERISTICS (Just identify 2)
OF THE LEARNERS
Gardner’s Theory of NATURE Gardner’s multiple Gardner’s theory
Multiple Students learn intelligences theory differentiated
Intelligence material in multiple can be used for intelligence in
ways can trigger curriculum modalities and was
their confidence to development, proposed in his book
develop areas in planning instruction, published in 1983.
which they are not selection of course He suggested that
as strong. In the end, activities, and his theory meant to
students’ learning is related assessment ’empower learners’
enhanced when strategies. Gardner and not limit them
instruction includes points out that to a single learning
a range of everyone has modality.
meaningful and strengths and
appropriate weaknesses in He has also
methods, activities, various intelligences, emphasized the
and assessments. which is why need to reform the
educators should way educational
CHARACTERISTICS decide how best to curriculums are
Gardner’s Theory of present course created to help
Multiple material given the students focus on
Intelligences is likely subject-matter and their true
to expand shortly individual class of capabilities rather
with new forms of students than going through a
intelligence added to curriculum that is a
it, most likely by mile wide and an
Gardner himself. inch deep.
While there has
been much criticism
of the theory over
the years, it is a
widely used theory
with a wide range of
applications,
particularly in
education and
teaching.