Gardener’s Theory of Intelligence is an expansive ideology that declares all humans have different talents and these gifts come from a form of intelligence. His theory states that there are 9 different forms of intelligence reflection. Mr. Gardner maintains that his theory of multiple forms intelligence should "empower learners”, not restrict them to one modality of learning that they perform best in. They appear to become more apparent in the later years of childhood, in the stage called “pre-teen” . Mr. Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence has given intelligence testing a new avenue to explore by giving intellectual credit to people’s natural inclined gifts, admits that these “talents” are not always based on effort, and makes it possible for educators to attempt new tactics, based on personality, to help all students to absorb and …show more content…
Music, art, sports, debates, these are all included in the intelligence consideration. There are many talents that can be observed in life that people “just seem to have a knack for” or “are very gifted with” and all of these categories seem to fall in these modalities. From the Master Gardener- Naturalist to the aerospace professor- logical thinker, there is a subsection for everything. Prior to this theory, the “go-to” theory was Sternberg’s Triarchic theory of intelligence, which only offered 3 categories of intelligence. This theory gives no ability to have a mixture of the different intelligence forms but places an intelligence type into a certain category indefinitely. The Gardener Theory of Multiple Intelligences has similar points but, for the most part, is the most reasonable of the two. Mr. Gardner’s theory allowed people to possess many different types of intelligence forms and allowed them to excel in a specific category. Through many years of research, it has proven to be a more viable than the other
Everyone goes through different experiences in life, just as everyone has different types of intelligences and skills. In total there are nine types of intelligences but there is only 2 listed using 3 paragraphs. These examples come from “Flowers for Algernon” or “Dakota Fullest Earns Nation’s Highest Folk Honor”. Some ways in which people demonstrate their knowledge and skill is through Howard Gardner’s Logical/ Mathematical , Bodily/ Kinesthetic , and Intrapersonal intelligences.
Howard Gardner’s theory contains eight main multiple intelligence. As the years have progressed there have taken one out and is left with the main seven. These seven are: Linguistic, Mathematical, Spatial, bodily, Musical, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. These are found in everyone; however, each person will excel in one or two. Once teachers can determine what intelligence the students will exceed on and teach to their strengths the student will learn much more.
Charles Spearman's model of intelligence and Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory are two of the most widely used theories of intelligence. In order to understand how similar the two theories are we must first understand their differences. These two men differed in opinion on how IQ and intelligence should be measured, and they differed in opinion on what made a person "smart". In order to examine these things they first had to understand the human brain and how it works. They had to examine the human study habits and rituals, along with the human test taking habits.
Howard Gardner is the “John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero” (Gardner bio, Multiple Intelligences and Education, MI Theory, and Project Zero). As director of Project Zero, it provided and environment that Gardner could begin the exploration of human cognition (Multiple Intelligences and Education). Project Zero colleagues have been designing assessment and the use of multiple intelligences (MI) to realize more personalized curriculum, instruction, and teaching methods; and the quality of crossing traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought in education (Gardner bio). MI theories offer tools to educators that will allow more people to master learning in an effective way and to help people “achieve their potential at the workplace, in occupations, and in the service of the wider world” (Gardner papers).
The nine abilities that Gardner focused on were Linguistic, Spatial, Logical, Musical, Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Naturalistic, and Spiritual. Each child has the ability to possess all the intelligences and one intelligence can be stronger while weaker in another. The benefit of multiple intelligences is that it allows educators to acknowledge several talents as oppose to measuring a child’s intelligence with an IQ
This essay is going to be introducing one of many developmental theorist, Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences. We will be talking about his background. This essay will explain what his theory was about, and each of Gardner’s seven distinct intelligences. It will also be explaining his significance in changing the way we learn and perceive new ideas.
The definition of intelligence becomes even more complicated when one considers the work of Howard Gardner. Gardner claims that intelligence can not be defined with one definition because intelligence is not one thing. Gardner purports that there are eight different categories of intelligence: musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. He is currently considering adding a ninth category of intelligence: existential (Carvin).
Intelligence by definition is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” (Oxford Dictionary, 2014). However, many psychologists argue that there is no standard definition of ‘intelligence’, and there have been many different theories over time as psychologists try to find better ways to define this concept (Boundless 2013). While some believe in a single, general intelligence, others believe that intelligence involves multiple abilities and skills. Another largely debated concept is whether intelligence is genetically determined and fixed, or whether is it open to change, through learning and environmental influence. This is commonly known as the nature vs. nurture debate.
Gardner’s theory of MI offers an alternative view of intelligence which has measured intelligence based on the results that would predict success in the current educational system. Furham (2009) sums up Gardner’s definition as “the ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings”. This definition suggests that human intelligence is comprised of more than the predictable success in a western school system. Gardner argues that traditional definitions of intelligence and intelligence testing are too narrow and marginalize people who do not fit traditional education system that focuses on visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, and logical–mathematical intelligences. He supports this with unique cases of idiots savant, who are people with low IQs but excel in skills in areas not measured through tradition IQ tests (Arnett, 2013). MI theory proposes that individual’s intelligence can be differentiated on eight different modalities:
Created more than a decade ago, IQ test are still widely used today to measure an individual’s mental agility and ability. IQ test can be used to help identify children for special education or those who test gifted. Alfred Binet, one of the first creators of the IQ test, felt that these tests were “inadequate measures of intelligence, pointing to the test’s inability to properly measure creativity or emotional intelligence” This paper will discuss why the concept of IQ test are controversial among educators, how it can be misinterpreted, if IQ can predict achievement in school and in life, and if it increases across the lifespan. This reaction paper will also discuss why it is important for students to learn not only in their preferred
In conclusion the implementation of ACO to air traffic control does have advantages and limitations as ants search for the shortest path for the source of food correlates to aircrafts trying to reach their destination. ACO can be successful in air traffic control as it allows for error correction, removal of conflict zones and improving journey speed. There are also constraints as this concept is not 100% accurate but with the flexibility of ACO it has the ability to react to any possible problems and then adequately assign a solution. Although aircraft risk is greater than those of ants there is plausible evidence given that the implementation of ACO for air traffic control will be a success.
This is an essay about the different theories of intelligence; it will discuss which theory is best at determining intelligence in my opinion. The information provided will help describe the pros and cons of each of the theories being used to define intelligence, explain why is it important to assess children’s intelligence, and discuss the type of intelligence I possess. The different theories of intelligence are complex and understanding the elements of each can help an individual choose the one that they believe is the best for determining intelligence. Comparing the positive and the negative elements of each theory of intelligence will allow an individual to see both sides of the theory and the flaws that may be twisted
In 1983, Howard Gardner a Harvard professor proposed the theory that individual can have multiple ways of learning and processing information. The multiple intelligences consist of 9 different ways and these include: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, existential, musical, naturalistic, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Every individual has a different amount of each intelligence but each intelligence is at a varying level. With the help of a multiple intelligences assessment, I found that my top three multiple intelligences are Intrapersonal, logical, and interpersonal. Within his research Gardner says that “Intrapersonal intelligence refers to people’s ability to recognize and assess those same characteristics
In Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind, he proposes that there are seven main areas in which all people have special skills; he calls them intelligences. His research at Harvard University was in response to the work that Alfred Binet had done in France around 1900. Binet’s work led to the formation of an intelligence test; we are all familiar with the “intelligence quotient,” or “IQ,” the way that intelligence is measured on his test.
Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard, introduced his theory of multiple intelligences in 1983. Multiple intelligence’s is a theory about the brain that says human beings are born with single intelligence that cannot be changed, and is measurable by a psychologist. Gardner believes that there are eight different intelligences in humans. The eight are verbal linguistic, visual spatial, bodily kinesthetic, mathematical logic, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist. Understanding these intelligence’s will help us to design our classroom and curriculum in a way that will appeal to all of our students. We might also be able to curve discipline problems by reaching a student in a different way. One that will make more sense to them and more enjoyable. We can include all of the intelligences in lessons to accommodate all of the students’ different learning styles at once. By reaching each students intelligence we can assume that a student will perform better which, could mean students retaining more important information. A students learning style can also help lead them into a more appropriate career direction. As a teacher you can also learn your own personal learning style or intelligence to help improve the way you learn and teach.