In the 1980’s, Howard Gardner developed the MI Theory, a theory that includes eight types of intelligences. He created this in response to an IQ test that was originally developed by Alfred Binet in 1904. These intelligences span a wide variety of skills including linguistic, logical-mathematic, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, and naturalist. Everybody possesses all eight of these intelligences, while some people have trained certain intelligences to higher levels than others. A series of eight tests were administered to cancel the possibility of these intelligences being a talent, skill, or aptitude. The criteria that each intelligence had to meet included: potential isolation by brain damage, existence of savants or prodigies, distinctive developmental history, an evolutionary history, support from psychometric findings, support from experimental psychological tasks, identifiable core operation, and susceptibility to encoding in a symbol system. Some key points to remember about the multiple intelligence theory are: each person possesses all of the intelligences in some way, most people develop each intelligence at least to a point of competency, intelligences primarily work together, and there are many different parts of each intelligence. Gaining understanding of multiple intelligences can help teachers understand the ways in which their students learn best and which teaching methods will be most effective.
As a whole, our class feels that the MI Theory is very interesting and important. We feel that it is necessary for teachers to understand their students' intelligences in order to help them learn to their greatest ability. This chapter reinforced our class discussions by making the theory more understandable and detailed. We feel that it will be easy to incorporate the various intelligences through projects, papers, group-work, and discussions. It is important to remember that all students are intelligent in different ways. We now know that there are ways to develop each intelligence to a sufficient level and that all the intelligences work together. As future educators, we need to develop effective ways to incorporate all of these intelligences in our curriculums.
This is a video from a Multiple Intelligences show put on by the Gear Innovative International School in India. The school focuses on developing the talents of every student by providing an encouraging and positive environment:
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I loved the link with the little girl dancing. It really helps show the musical and physical intelligences. Awesome!
The link to the MI site will be a useful tool as we continue to delve into the chapter and moving forward into the classroom. This provides even more resources for use to utilize to further differentiate what style of learner we are and how to identify others.
Thanks
Liz I really liked the history link. I know that many people don't like history books because their boring. This puts the book into a visual format and makes it kind of interesting to learn about.
Liz, I really liked the ways in which their students learn best video. I agree with you when you said that you did a lot of memorizing in class and this is a good way to show teachers there are other ways to be an effective teacher.
I really liked the first link, Concept to Classroom. It looks like a very resourceful link that can be used throughout the semester. Not only does it talk about what we have already learned, but it gives some really great examples, that could be used in a classroom.
I loved your link of the Gear School. It shows that education is no longer all about the books. I love when education inside the classroom can be related to things outside of the classroom. Any school that promotes development of more than "book smarts" or simply studying the book is an amazing school.
This video of the young girl dancing was really splendid!
What a great example of MI Theory and how it comes through with students. Also, the website that discusses the GEAR Ed village was awesome. Those schools look like they have got it right when it comes to effective curriculum building! Good work.
The site on MI really worked well as it provided a source to gain deeper knowledge about MI. The site is also easy to navigate and well organized, making it even easier to learn the content.
Liz, I really liked the link that talked about the GEAR school, I think that it is a great tool for figuring out activities in the classroom that can benefit all different types of learners.
The History video seemed like a very good resource for visual learners. The little mermaid song will be stuck in my head all night.
The MI theory link was really informative. It gave listed of different schools and how they've implemented MI theory into the classroom. It also give ideas to implement MI theory into your own classroom. Great Job!
Wow, the GEAR school sounds really cool. I'd love to learn more about it!
I really liked your second link Liz. It is really helpful for auditory learners.
I thought that the little girl dancing was interesting. It was a good way to see one of the more "unconventional" intelligences used for an assessment of a student.
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