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Multiple Intelligences
Learning/thinking styles and Multiple Intelligence
> Thinking / learning styles is one factor that brings about student diversity.
> learners learn and think in distinct ways
- a group of learners always differ in its learning characteristics particularly the learners manner of
processing information.
- Some learners absorb lesson better when they work with their hands than when they just listen.
- there are also others prefer to watch video about a topic, in like manner students have preferred on
how to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas.( by write, draw , dance and sing).
- These preferences involve thinking/learning style and multiple
intelligences
Activity
What types of learner are? Whats your Style? Answer the Style Inventory below and
find out!
1. If I have to learn how to do something, I learn best when I:
(V) Watch someone show me.
(A) Hear someone tell me how.
(K) Try to do it myself.
2. When I read, I Often find that I:
(V) Visualize what I am reading in my minds eye.
(A) Read out loud or hear the words inside my head.
(K) Fidget and try to feel the content.
3. When asked to give directions, I:
(V) See the actual places in my mind as I say them or prefer to draw them.
(A) Have no difficulty in giving them verbally.
(K) Have to point or move my body as I give them.
4. If I am unsure how to spell a word, I:
(V) Write it in order to determine if it is looks right.
(A) Spell it out loud in to determine if it sounds right.
(K) Write it in order to determine if it feels right.
5. When I write, I:
(V) Am concerned how to neat and well space my letters and words appear.
(A) Often say the letters and words to myself.
(K) Push hard on my pen or pencil and can feel the floe of the words or letters as I form them.
6. If I had to remember a list of items, I would remember it best if I:
(V) Wrote them down.
(A) Said them over and over to myself.
(K) Moved around and used my fingers to name each items.
7. I prefer teachers who:
(V) Use the board or overhead projector while they lecture.
(A) Talk with lot of expression.
(K) Use hands-on activities.
8. When trying to concentrate, I have a difficult time when:
(V) There is a lot of clutter or movement in the room.
(A) There is a lot of noise in the room.
(K) I have to sit still for any length of time.
9. When solving a problem, I:
(V) Write or draw diagrams to see it.
(A) Talk myself through it.
(K) Use my entire body or move objects to help me think.
Learning/Thinking Styles
-refers to the preferred way of individual processes information.
-it will describe a persons typical mode of thinking in remembering or
problem solving.
-style is usually considered to be bipolar dimension.
-learning/thinking styles simply denotes a tendency to behave in a certain
manner.
-ones style may usually describe as a personality dimension which
influences the attitudes, values and in social interaction.
There are two perspectives in learning-thinking style;
1) Sensory preferences-tend to gravitate towards one or two type of
sensory input and maintain dominance in one of the three sensory
preferences such as Visual Learner, Auditory learners and Tactile/
Kinesthetic Learner.
A. Visual Learner learners must see their teachers actions and facial expression to fully understand the content of a
lesson.
>this type of learners tends to view pictures and learn best from visual aids.
Ex. Diagrams, illustrated textbooks, videos, flipcharts and etc.
>these learners also often prefer to take detailed notes to absorb better the information shared.
Ri Charde- categorizes visual learners into two categories:
1.Visual- iconic refers to that learners much interested in visual
these groups of learners usually have good picture memory/ iconic imagery.
-they like to read a map better than to reading a book.
2.Visual-symbolic - learners feel comfortable and prefers with abstract symbolism such as mathematical formulae or
the written word.
-this is in contrast visual iconic.
-they like to read better a book than to read a map.
-prefer to read about things than to hear about them.
-a good abstract thinkers and do not require practical means.
B. Auditory Learners - learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through and listening to what
others have say.
> they easily interpret the underlying meaning of speech through listening to the tone of voice, pitch, speed and
other nuances.
>written information may have little meaning until it is heard.
>these learners often benefit from reading text aloud and using tape recorder.
> can attend aurally to details; translate the spoken word easily into the written word.
> not easily distracted in their listening ability.
Auditory Learners is divided into two categories; listener and talker.
Listeners refers of what they heard and recollection or a
way of remembering things and information.
Talkers the ones who prefer to talk and discuss.
-they find themselves talking to those around them.
-they are trying not to be disrupted and may not even realize they need to talk.
C. Tactile/ Kinesthetic Learners learn through hands-on approach, actively exploring the physical world around
them.
- they find it so hard to sit for a long periods.
-less benefited from the discussion or written materials.
-they become distracted by their need for the activity and exploration.
-they tend to prefer learning by doing, and preferring the use of psychomotor skills to, say, and abstract thinking
skills.
-they tend to have good motor memory and motor coordination.
There are theorists have tied the global-analytic continuum the left- brain or right- brain continuum.
According to Roger Sperrys model- the left- brained dominant person is portrayed as linear (analytic),verbal,
mathematical thinker while right-brained person is one who is viewed as non-linear(global),and holistic in thought
preferences.
>Both sides of the brain can reason but through different strategies.
>One side is more dominant than the other.
>The left brain regarded as analytic in approach while right brain described as holistic or global.
Left brain is also called as successive processor prefers to learn in a step by step sequential format ,beginning with
details leading to conceptual understanding of skills.
Right brain as simultaneous processor - prefers to learn beginning with the general concept and then going on to
specific.
Columns below show the comparison between the left brain and right brain;
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCIES
Multiple Intelligences was first described by Howard Gardner on his theory in Frames of Mind
(1983).He defines intelligence as an ability or set of abilities that allows a person to solve a problem or
fashion a product that is valued in one or more cultures.
Gardner believes that different intelligences may be independent abilities. A person can be low in one
domain area but high in another. Every individual posses the intelligences but in varying degrees of
strength and skills. Gardner in his most current research indicates that there are nine (9) distinct forms of
intelligence. These are the tails leading to childrens learning that teachers should address in their
classrooms all the time.
Intrapersonal (Self Smart) learning through feelings, values and attitudes. This is
a decidedly affective component of learning through which students place value
on what they learn and take owner ship for their learning.
Existential (spirit Smart) - learning by seeing the big picture;Why are we here?
What is my role in the world??What is my place my family, school and
community? This intelligence seeks connections to real world understanding and
application of new learning.
Visual/Spatial Intelligence (Picture Smart)-learning visually and organizing ideas spatially. Seeing
concepts in action in order to understand them. The ability to see things in ones mind in planning
to create a product or solve a problem.
Verbal/Linguistic (Word Smart) - learning through the spoken and written word. This intelligence
was always valued in the traditional classroom and in traditional assessments of intelligence and
achievement.
Musical/ (Music Smart) - learning through patterns, rhythms and music. This includes not only
auditory learning, but the identification of patterns through all the senses.
Disposition/
Intelligence
Sensitivity
Inclination for
Ability
Verbal- Linguistic
Intelligence
The
Speaking, listening,
sounds,meaning,stru writing,reading
cture and styles of
language
Speaks
effectively(teacher,
religious leader,
politician) or write
effectively(poet,journali
st,novelist,copywriter,editor)
Logical-Mathematical
Intelligence
Patterns,numbers,
and numerical
data,causes
quantitative
reasoning
Workeffectively with
numbers(accountant,sta
tistician,economist) and
reason
effectively(engineer,scie
ntist,computer
programmer)
Finding
patterns,making
calculations,forming
and testing
hypotheses,using the
scientific
method,deductive
and inductive
reasoning