Transcript Multiple Intelligences

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“It is of the utmost importance that we
recognize and nurture all the varied
human intelligences and all of the
combinations of intelligences. We are
all so different largely because we all
have different combinations of
intelligences. If we recognize this, I
think we will have at least a better
chance of dealing appropriately with
the many problems that we face in the
world.”
Howard Gardner (1987)
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In his 1983 book Frames of Mind, Howard
Gardner attempted to broaden the scope of
human potential beyond simple IQ scores.
Gardner suggested that intelligence had more to
do with the capacity for (1) solving problems and
(2) fashioning products in a context-rich and
naturalistic setting, than with a single IQ
measurement.
Gardner used eight “tests” that an intelligence
must meet in order to be considered a fullfledged intelligence and not just a talent, skill or
aptitude.
 Linguistic
 Logical-Mathematical
 Spatial
 Bodily-Kinesthetic
 Musical
 Interpersonal
 Intrapersonal
 The
capacity to use words
effectively, whether orally or in
writing.
High-End Example: Virginia Woolf
 The
capacity to use numbers
effectively and to reason well.
High-End Example: Blaise Pascal
 The
ability to perceive the
visual-spatial world accurately
and to perform transformations
upon those perceptions.
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High-End Example: I.M. Pei
 Expertise
in using one’s whole
body to express ideas and
feelings and facility in using
one’s hands to produce or
transform thing.
High-End Example: Rudolf Nureyev
 The
capacity to perceive,
discriminate, transform, and
express musical forms.
High-End Example: Stevie Wonder
 The
ability to perceive and
make distinctions in the
moods, intentions,
motivations, and feelings of
other people.
High-End Example: Nelson Mandela
 Self-knowledge
and the ability
to act adaptively on the basis
of that knowledge.
High-End Example: Buddha
Each person possesses all seven intelligences
 Most people can develop each intelligence to
an adequate level of competence
 Intelligences usually work together in
complex ways
 There are many ways to be intelligent within
each category
 There might be additional intelligences
(i.e. Naturalist)
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 Because
of individual
differences among students,
teachers are best advised to
use a broad range of teaching
strategies with their students.
 Because
many of the teaching
strategies for teaching to MI
are context-specific, the
assessments should likewise
be non-standard (therefore
more “authentic”)
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Frames of Mind (1983), Howard Gardner
Gardner’s Project Zero
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/index.cfm
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Thomas Armstrong’s
Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom (1994)