Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligences
Mitzi Peña and Rachel Mentzer
Introduction To Learning Styles

A Learning style is an individual's unique approach to learning based on

strengths, weaknesses, and preferences

An early approach states that there were three major cognitive learning styles

Visual

Auditory

Kinesthetic

What about the other type of learners?

Howard Gardner
● A developmental psychologist
● Known for his theory of Multiple intelligences
● His book Frames of Mind outline his theory
● Theory of Multiple Intelligence
○ 8 major types of intelligences

Visual Naturalistic
Verbal Physical
Logical Auditory
Social Intrapersonal
● His theory inspires teachers to find different ways to teach
 Quiz: Which learning style
are you?
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Rachel
Mitzi
Learning Styles

Verbal Linguistic- “Word Smart” Logical/ Mathematical- “Math

Smart”
Musical/ Rhythmic- “Music Smart” Bodily/ Kinesthetic- “Body Smart”
Visual/ Spatial- “Art Smart” Naturalist- “Nature
Smart”
Intrapersonal- “Self Smart” Interpersonal- “People
Smart”
Existential- “Wondering Smart”
 Verbal-Linguistic

People with Linguistic intelligence love and are talented

with words.
They Enjoy...

Reading

Writing

learning languages

Speaking
Classroom activities for
Verbal-Linguistic Learners
Activities Materials Instructional Strategies
Lectures Books Read about

Journal writing Tape recorders Write about...

Word games Computers Talk about...

Discussions/debate Stamps Listen to...

Storytelling/Short story Books on tape Discuss...

Poems/Essay Newspapers/Magazines

Learning a new language

Speech/Presentation/Skit/Play
Logical-Mathematical

● Deductive reasoning
● Detecting patterns
● Logical thinking
● Scientific investigations
● Identifying relationships between different things
● Understanding complex and abstract ideas
● Abstract
Ideas on ways to teach Logical thinkers
Activities Materials Instructional Strategies

Problem Solving Manipulatives Follow the process...

Science Experiments Calculators List the procedures or

rules...

Mental Calculations Science Make a pattern of...

Number Games Flash Cards/Math Games Make a list...

Flash Cards Quantify...

Brain teasers Prove/Solve...

Sequence

Puzzles
Visual-Spatial

● Learns through visual aids

● Visualizes pictures
● Notices colors and shapes
● Good with directions
Ideas on ways to teach Visual-Spatial Learners

● Use color
● Use systems and diagrams
● Use a visual story approach for memorizing
● Draw out words and events to connect what you are doing with the world
Body-Kinesthetic

● Learns by “doing”
● Love movement
● Enjoys outdoors
● Can’t sit still for very long
Ideas on ways to teach

● Use touch, action, movement, and hands-on assignments.

● Have students describe physical feelings of their actions
● Use physical objects
Musical

● Learn through lectures

● Sense of rhythm
● Talented with instruments or
singing
● Often has music running through
their head
Ideas on ways to teach

● Use sound, rhyme, and music

● Provide background noises for visualizations
● Set key points to a familiar song or jingle
Intrapersonal

● Learns independently
● Figuring out feelings
● Spends time thinking and reflecting
● Introverted
Ideas on ways to teach

● Have students align their goals with personal values

● Highlight what they would be feeling or thinking- reflect. (Maybe using a
book?)
● Help bring out interests and connect with the class
● Help students be aware of their own thoughts and feelings towards different
objects.
Interpersonal

● Learns through interaction and dialogue

● Empathetic
● Enjoys teaching others
● Likes group-work
Ideas on ways to teach

● Groupwork
● Sharing ideas in class
● Group playing/acting
● Have students interview someone of importance
Naturalist

● Learn through nature

● Conscious of weather changes
● Appreciates scenic places
● Bothered by pollution
Ideas on ways to teach

● Relate what they learn to nature

● Use scientific gadgets
● Find patterns across different organisms
● Collect feathers, leaves, and flowers and do a interactive project with them.
Why is Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence
Theory important to us as educators?

"We have this myth that the only way to learn something is to read it in a
textbook or hear a lecture on it. And the only way to show that we've
understood something is to take a short-answer test or maybe
occasionally with an essay question thrown in. But that's nonsense.
Everything can be taught in more than one way." – Howard Gardner,
1997
 Gardner’s Five Minds For the Future

The Disciplinary Mind: the mastery of major schools of thought, including science, math,
and history.
The Synthesizing Mind: the ability to integrate ideas from different disciplines or spheres
into a coherent whole and to communicate that integration to others.
The Creating Mind: the capacity to uncover and clarify new problems, questions and
phenomena.
The Respectful Mind: awareness of and appreciation for differences among human beings
and human groups.
The Ethical Mind: fulfillment of one’s responsibilities as a worker and a citizen.
Ending Notes

Ending quiz: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/62198ee6-11a7-45ef-a620-

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Works Cited

https://www.verywell.com/howard-gardner-biography-2795511

https://mypersonality.info/multiple-intelligences/

http://www.learning-styles-online.com/style

http://www.homeeddirectory.com/blog/multiple-intelligences-interpersonal

https://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-research

https://www.edutopia.org/article/learning-styles-real-and-useful-todd-finley