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Did you know that each person has unique intelligence and that we thrive in certain learning environments while struggling in others? There are
eight different types of intelligence, as put forth by Howard Gardner. People can have varying levels of intelligence, and they can change over time.
Teachers can use multiple intelligences in the classroom for the benefit of their students by customizing lessons, classroom layouts, and
assignments for these multiple intelligences.
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What is the Multiple Intelligences Theory?

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The Multiple Intelligences Theory throws away the idea that intelligence is one sort of general ability and argues that there are actually eight types
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linguistic and logical intelligence.
The Eight bits of Intelligence

1. Linguistic Intelligence (“word smart”)
2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (“number/reasoning smart”)
3. Visual-Spatial Intelligence (“picture smart”)
4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“body smart”)
5. Musical Intelligence (“music smart”)
6. Interpersonal Intelligence (“people smart”)
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“self smart”)
8. Naturalist Intelligence (“nature smart”)
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Linguistic intelligence, also called verbal-linguistic intelligence, is about knowledge of language use, production, and possibilities.
Those with this type of intelligence have the ability to use language to express themselves and assign meaning by way of poetry, humor, stories, and
metaphors. It is common for comedians, public speakers, and writers to be high in linguistic intelligence.
Teaching for Linguistic Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high linguistic intelligence:
Use creative writing activities such as poetry or scriptwriting
Set up class debates
Allow for formal speaking opportunities
Use humor, such as joke writing or telling
Make sure there are plenty of reading opportunities
Learning with Linguistic Intelligence:

Learn your best by writing, practicing speeches, creating jokes, journaling, and reading.
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Logical-mathematical intelligence is commonly thought of as “scientific thinking,” or the ability to reason, work with abstract symbols, recognize
patterns, and see connections between separate pieces of information. It makes it possible to go through the scientific process of calculating,
quantifying, hypothesizing, and concluding.
This type of intelligence is high in scientists, mathematicians, computer programmers, lawyers, and accountants.
Teaching for Logical-Mathematical Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high logical-mathematical intelligence:
Provide opportunities for problem-solving
Involve calculations
Create activities that involve deciphering a code
Use pattern or logic games
Organize new information in an outline format
Learning with Logical-Mathematical Intelligence:

Learn your best by creating information outlines with points, and making patterns of the information.
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Visual-spatial intelligence is all about the visual arts, graphics, and architecture. This type of intelligence allows people to visualize objects from
different perspectives and in different ways, use objects within space, form mental images, and think in three-dimensions.
People high in visual-spatial intelligence include painters, architects, graphic designers, pilots, and sailors.
Teaching for Visual-Spatial Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high visual-spatial intelligence:
Use mind mapping techniques
Use guided visualizations or verbal imagery
Provide opportunities for artistic expression using a variety of mediums (paint, clay, etc.)
Allow for make-believe or fantasy
Create collages for visual representations
Learning with Visual-Spatial Intelligence:

Learn your best by creating something visual using space such as a collage, art piece, or written map of the information.
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Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is the ability to use the body to express emotion, play games, or create new products. It is commonly referred to as
“learning by doing.” This type of intelligence enables people to manipulate objects and the body.
High bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is common in dancers, athletes, surgeons and artisans.
Teaching for Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high bodily-kinesthetic intelligence:
Use body sculpture
Use of role-playing, miming, or charade games
Allow for physical exercise, dance, or martial arts
Create opportunities for dramatic arts such as skits
Use human graphs
Learning with Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence:

To learn at your best, try creating a movement routine or role-play to learn a concept or remember information.
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Musical intelligence is all about music. Individuals with high musical intelligence have a greater knowledge of and sensitivity to tone, rhythm, pitch,
and melody. But this type of intelligence isn’t just about music — it’s also about sensitivity to the human voice, audio patterns, and sounds in the
environment.
Composers, musicians, conductors, and sound directors all have high musical intelligence.
Teaching for Musical Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high musical intelligence:
Use instruments and instrument sounds
Use environmental sounds to illustrate a concept
Allow for musical composition and performance
Allow students to create songs about a topic
Learning with Musical Intelligence:

To learn best with your musical intelligence, try making a song with content you need to know.
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Interpersonal intelligence is all about working with others and communicating effectively with others both verbally and nonverbally. It involves the
ability to notice distinctions in others’ moods, temperaments, intentions, and motivations.
High interpersonal intelligence is often found in teachers, counselors, politicians, and religious leaders.
Teaching for Interpersonal Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high interpersonal intelligence:
Teach collaborative skills
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Use empathy (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/empathy-vs-sympathy/)
Learning with Interpersonal Intelligence:

To learn best with high interpersonal (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/interpersonal-vs-intrapersonal-2/) intelligence, try doing most of your work
in a group or with another person. Try to put yourself in the shoes of people or situations you are learning about.
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Intrapersonal intelligence involves knowledge of the self in ways such as feelings, a range of emotional responses, and intuition about spirituality.
This type of intelligence allows people to be conscious of the unconscious and to discern higher patterns of connection between things in our world.
Psychologists, philosophers (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/greatest-philosophers-of-all-time/), and theologists have high intrapersonal

intelligence.
Teaching for Intrapersonal Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high intrapersonal intelligence:
Practice meditation (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/the-benefits-of-meditation-mindfulness-in-the-classroom/)
Allow for plenty of self-reflection
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Practice reaching altered states of consciousness
Learning with Intrapersonal Intelligence:

To learn best with intrapersonal intelligence, try using mindful walks, meditation, and metacognition.
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Naturalist intelligence is about discerning, comprehending, and appreciating plants, animals, the atmosphere, and the earth. It involves knowing
how to care for animals, live off the land, classify species, and understand systems in nature.
High naturalist intelligence is seen in farmers, zookeepers, botanists, nature guides, veterinarians, cooks, and landscapers/gardeners.
Teaching for Naturalist Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high naturalist intelligence:
Practice conservation
Have a classroom plant or animals to care of
Observe nature, go on nature walks
Use species classification
Provide hands-on labs of natural materials
Learning with Naturalist Intelligence:

To learn at your best, do your learning outdoors. Work with natural materials or animals as much as possible to work through concepts.
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Educational Benefits of Applying Multiple Intelligences Theory

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The benefits of this theory are many, and they can be applied across all ages and in all subjects. Students who are given ways to learn and perform at
their best are more likely to enjoy school and are more likely to succeed academically. (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/what-can-you-do-at-18-to-
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Planning With Intelligence:

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Choice Approach: Students can be given the option to complete some activities of a long list of activities suited for different types of intelligence.
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Bridge Approach: If most or all of the students in a classroom or group are high in the same type of intelligence, activity or classroom layout can be
focused on that one type.
What Multiple Intelligences Theory Can Teach Us: (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/my-advice-for-newbies/)

Additional research may be needed in order to understand the best possible methods to assess and support a range of intelligence in the classroom.
For now, the theory has already taught students, teachers, parents, and administrators to broaden their definition of intelligence and to include all
types in the equation.
Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom:

There are many ways to use the theory of multiple intelligences in the classroom.
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The best way to layout a classroom to support multiple intelligences is to have places in the room that works for each type of intelligence.
For linguistic intelligence, there should be a quiet area for reading, writing, and practicing speeches.
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For logical-mathematical intelligence, there should be an area where students can conduct scientific experiments.
For visual-spatial intelligence,
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For naturalistic intelligence, outdoor space or indoor aquarium or terrarium could be provided.
For interpersonal intelligence, there should be an area with large tables for group work, while for intrapersonal intelligence there should be areas
for individual activities.
How to Identify the Intelligence in Your Classroom

It can be hard to identify which intelligences are in the classroom. Observation and working together with the students to understand what is
working for them is key. University of the People offers a Master’s in Education (https://www.uopeople.edu/programs/ed/degrees/master-of-
education-med/), where you are taught to identify the types of intelligence and how to implement them.
Expand Upon Traditional Activities:

Traditional activities in the classroom tend to focus on linguistic and logical-mathematical types of intelligence. These should be expanded to
include other types of intelligence as well. For example, teachers can use debate to teach logic or use clay manipulatives for math learning.
Results of This Program:

When multiple intelligences theory is implemented properly in the classroom, it can have very positive results
(https://www.context.org/iclib/ic27/campbell/). Students develop an increased sense of responsibility, self-direction, and independence, discipline
problems are reduced, students develop and apply new skills, cooperative learning skills increase, and overall academic achievement increases.
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The teacher’s role is extremely important in making sure students get the most out of multiple intelligences theory in the classroom. Teachers
should work with the students, rather than for the students, to develop the best activities, projects, and layouts. Teachers should continuously
observe students’ interests and successes in different areas and continually change the classroom layout and plan accordingly.
Teaching in the Way the Child Learns:

Teaching using the multiple intelligence theory is essentially teaching in the way the child learns. It involves giving up long-held traditional beliefs
about how to teach and instead puts the child first at the center of the planning.
Factors In Educational Reform

According to Gardner, there are four factors in educational reform: assessment, curriculum, teacher education, and community participation.
Gardner argues that in addition to using multiple intelligences, educational reform should occur within the following:
Assessment: Children should be assessed according to their learning styles and intelligence, and traditional forms of assessment should not be
used to drive instruction.
Curriculum: Curriculum has traditionally been unchanged, and no one seems to know why. Curriculums should shift to focus on skill
development and knowledge formation.
Teacher Education: There must be a way to attract more talented teachers into the profession, keep them there, and incentivize them to use
research-backed methods.
Community Participation: Children and adolescents don’t stop learning at 3:00 pm. The entire community must be committed and involved in
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Multiple intelligences represent different intellectual abilities and strengths, whereas learning styles are about how an individual may approach a
task. Learning styles are fluid, and may not correlate completely to the intelligence type.
Conclusion
As a teacher, it is important to use multiple intelligences in the classroom, but first, you must understand the multiple intelligence theory and know
which intelligences your students have to be able to teach them in the best way possible.
As a student, it is important to know which intelligences you have so you know the most effective way to learn.
Hopefully, you now have a better understanding of what the multiple intelligences are and how you can use them to your benefit to help both
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4/2/24, 6:24 PM Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom for Teaching and Learning

What is the Multiple Intelligences Theory?

What is the Multiple Intelligences Theory?

Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/13-types-of-students-

My Advice for Newbies

linguistic and logical intelligence.

The Eight bits of Intelligence

2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (“number/reasoning smart”)

3. Visual-Spatial Intelligence (“picture smart”)

4. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“body smart”)

5. Musical Intelligence (“music smart”)

6. Interpersonal Intelligence (“people smart”)

7. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“self smart”)

8. Naturalist Intelligence (“nature smart”)

Linguistic Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/)

My Advice for Newbies

Teaching for Linguistic Intelligence:

Use creative writing activities such as poetry or scriptwriting

Set up class debates

Allow for formal speaking opportunities

Use humor, such as joke writing or telling

Make sure there are plenty of reading opportunities

Learning with Linguistic Intelligence:

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/)

My Advice for Newbies

Photo by Yancy Min (https://unsplash.com/@yancymin?

Teaching for Logical-Mathematical Intelligence:

Provide opportunities for problem-solving

Create activities that involve deciphering a code

Use pattern or logic games

Organize new information in an outline format

Learning with Logical-Mathematical Intelligence:

Visual-Spatial Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/)

My Advice for Newbies

Photo by Matthieu Comoy (https://unsplash.com/@alienwannabe?

Teaching for Visual-Spatial Intelligence:

Use mind mapping techniques

Use guided visualizations or verbal imagery

Allow for make-believe or fantasy

Create collages for visual representations

Learning with Visual-Spatial Intelligence:

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/)

My Advice for Newbies

Photo by Drew Graham (https://unsplash.com/@dizzyd718?

High bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is common in dancers, athletes, surgeons and artisans.

Teaching for Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence:

Use body sculpture

Use of role-playing, miming, or charade games

Allow for physical exercise, dance, or martial arts

Create opportunities for dramatic arts such as skits

Use human graphs

Learning with Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence:

Musical Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/)

My Advice for Newbies

Photo by Michael Maasen (https://unsplash.com/@mgmaasen?

Teaching for Musical Intelligence:

Use instruments and instrument sounds

Use environmental sounds to illustrate a concept

Allow for musical composition and performance

Allow students to create songs about a topic

Learning with Musical Intelligence:

Interpersonal Intelligence (https://www.uopeople.edu/)

My Advice for Newbies