Post on 16-Nov-2014
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Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner
Topics
• Brief MI theory• Types of MI• Educational application• Test yourself
What do you define ‘intelligence’?
Multiple Intelligences
• It is not necessary that a particular aptitude in one intelligence will not be necessarily demonstrated a comparable aptitude in another intelligence.
• Intelligences and skills can be developed in diverse ways through relevant experiences.
Criteria for identification of an intelligence
Criteria for identification of an intelligence
9 intelligences
9 intelligences
Existential An ability to reflect an individual’s capacity for considering ‘big questions’ about life, death, love, and being.
MI’s concept
• Individuals do demonstrate variation in their levels of strength and weakness across the intelligences.
• All individuals possess the full range of intelligences.
• No one precisely shows the same profile of intellectual strengths and weaknesses.
MI in education
• How does the theory contribute to education?
• How can MI be applied in the curriculum?
Integrating curricula with MI- Fogarty, R. 2008
• 10 models suggested• How to apply as MI in a curriculum as
thematic and threaded approaches.
Theme
Theme
• Tandem model – integration of two basic models as webbed and threaded
Thread
• Combine life skills into standard subject content as enduring learnings, thinking skills, habits of mind, reading skills, social skills, organizing skills, multiple intelligences, artistic skills, and technological skills.
Tandems: webbed theme/threaded life skills
• P.162 fig 4.20
Assessment
MI vs. LS
• P. 191
References
• Gardner, H. Multiple Intelligences. http://howardgardner.com/
• Fogarty, R. 2008. Integrating Curricula with Multiple Intelligences. Corwin Press.
Test yourself
• Work on handout to find out your intelligences’ strengths and weaknesses
• samples of ways to experience learning and activities which suit you.
• http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/what.cfm