5th Group

MI Theory
and Personal
Development
a relationship among Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory
and personal development.

Andrea Nora Ferdi Kurnia Nurul Izza Ratna Okta

 we will discuss about :
• Identifying Your Multiple Intelligence
• Tapping Multiple Intelligence Resources
• Developing Your Multiple Intelligence
• Activating and Deactivating Your Multiple
Intelligence
 QOTB quotes of the book

An important step in using the theory of multiple intelligences

is to determine the nature and quality of our own multiple
intelligences and seek ways to develop them in our lives.
Identifying Your Multiple Intelligence

There’s 8 fields of Intelligence :

• Linguistic Abilities • Musical Intelligence
• Logical-Mathematical Abilities • Interpersonal Intelligence
• Spatial Abilities • Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Abilities • Naturalist Intelligence

No test can accurately determine the nature or The best way to assess your own multiple intelligence is through a
quality of a person’s intelligence realistic appraisal of your performance
Tapping Multiple Intelligence Resources

There’s some way to tap your Multiple Intelligence:

• Draw on colleagues’ expertise

• Ask students to help out
• Use available technology

The final way to come to grips with intelligences that seem to be “blind spots” in
your life is through a process of careful cultivation or personal development of
your intelligences
Developing Your Multiple Intelligence

An intelligence can develop depends upon three main factors:

• Biological endowment
• Personal life history
• Cultural and historical background

MI theory is a model that values nurture as much as, and in some ways more than, nature
in accounting for the development of intelligences.
Activators and Deactivators Your Multiple
Intelligence
Crystallizing Experiences vs Paralyzing Experiences
• Positive energy - turn on • Negative energy - turn off
the intelligence the intelligence
• Positive affirmation of • Negative affirmation of
talent talent
• Support the intelligence to • Shut down the intelligence
develop to develop

Proud, Success, Happiness, Fear, Shame, Traumatized. Anger,

Creative, etc. etc.
The another factors that support and affect the development of
intelligence :

• Access to resources and mentors

• Historical-cultural background
• Geographic factor
• Familial factors
• Situational factors
QnA session

is there any
Question?
Thankyou.