Thursday, December 15, 2011

Multiple Intelligences

Every person is different. We all learn in different ways, too. Visual, Audio, and Kinesthetic ways of learning should be incorporated in every lesson taught so that every learner can understand what you are trying to communicate.

Howard Gardner discovered that people have multiple intelligences.

The possibilities are:

  1. Logical –mathematical.
  2. Linguistic –poetry, words.
  3. Visual/special –art, 3D, carpentry, engineer
  4. Musical –instruments, singing
  5. Bodily/Kinesthetic –movement, sports
  6. Interpersonal –how we relate to others, emotional
  7. Intrapersonal –to understand ones self
  8. Naturalistic –understanding our way in the world

Visual and spacial skills are an intelligence.

Art teaches kids:

Complex ways to solve problems

Things that words cannot describe

Small differences have large effects

To say what cannot be said

Art is not just a pretty picture on the wall.


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