Embrace Multiple Intelligence

Howard Gardner fosters the idea that people’s minds consist of multiple intelligence. These include; verbal-linguistic, mathematical-logical, musical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, and existential. With these intelligences, humans have the ability to strengthen or can weaken different areas of their multiple intelligences. A quick interactive self-assessment can help you discover these areas of intelligence and displays what areas you are comfortable in.

To embrace the idea of MI teachers need to realize that not every student learns exactly the same way. In order to reach all of her students a teacher should present a lesson plan by touching on the different intelligences. For example, to help all students exercise their different intelligences, a teacher might create a lesson plan that requires students to perform a project, listen to an instructional video, and write a report about the specific topic. Fostering this idea can be very beneficial to students and teacher. All students will have the ability to become more active and avid learners if they can find their intelligent strengths, while teachers will have a better opportunity to reach every student who may or may not be struggling in their class.