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What Is An Intelligence?
"An intelligence is the ability to solve problems, or to create products, that are valued within one or more cultural settings."
--Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind

Understanding Each Intelligence

Not one but eight ways of being Intelligent

Dr. Howard Gardner

Lets experience the Eight Intelligences

Hum a line of a tune / song in such a way that the first line (numerator) is a part of the second line (denominator) Use dumb charades to show various fractions while your partner guesses them
Here are eight activities based on fractions. Try all: Do in the order that you prefer or they interest you or you find easy to do.

Go through your yesterday recollect all events which had some fractions in it Draw a tree which shows different fractions like half, quarter etc in the same painting Think of a fraction in between and 1/3

Write a small poem in praise of the fractions Go for a walk in nature and see where you can identify various fractions

Discuss with others if it is better to talk in terms of fractions or percentages

Is she intelligent differently?

Arundhati Roy

Linguistic Intelligence Skilled with words The Word Player

Is he intelligent differently?
Albert Einstein

Logical/ Mathematical Intelligence Skilled with numbers & reasoning The Questioner

Is he intelligent differently?
M F Husain

Spatial Intelligence Skilled with pictures & images The Visualizer

Is he intelligent differently?
Sachin Tendulkar

Bodily/ Kinesthetic Intelligence Physical skill The Mover

Is he intelligent differently?
Pandit Ravi Shankar

Musical Intelligence Skilled with melody & rhythm The Musical

Is she intelligent differently?

Mother Teresa

Interpersonal Intelligence Skills of social understanding The People Person

Is he intelligent differently?
J Krishnamurthy

Intrapersonal Intelligence Skills of self-knowledge The Philosopher

Who is more intelligent?

Since we are all intelligent differently, Its not how much,

but How any child is intelligent?

Some food for thought:

Go around and find about others intelligence 1.What made you comfortable with some activities and uncomfortable with others? 2.How will this list be different for your spouse and child? What does that mean?

Give the most Crazy/Silly answers

Why does sun rise in the east? Why does a triangle have three sides? What are the mountains high? Who is a leader? Why should first letter in a sentence be Capital?

Verbal Linguistic Intelligence

Ability to Understand what others are conveying through written or spoken words Talk expressively and eloquently Compose, create, imagine using words Communicate effectively Students who are strong in verbal-linguistic intelligence love read, Write, and tell stories. They have good memories for names, places, dates, and trivia. Professional who use this intelligence include writers, public speakers, teachers, secretaries, business and office managers, comedians, poets, and actors.

Musical Stimulation
Make three columns 1.Verbs, 2.Adjectives, 3.Nouns.
Listen to instrumental music and under each category write whatever words come to your mind.

Take it further: 1. Check relationship between them 2. Make a story or poem 3. Use them in opposite ways 4. Think of a synonym or Antonym

Musical Intelligence
Ability to Sensitivity to pitch, timber and rhythm of sounds Appreciate quality musical composition Create musical compositions responsiveness to the emotional implications of these elements of music. Students Who remember melodies or recognize pitch and rhythm exhibit musical intelligence. They enjoy Listening to music and are aware of surrounding sounds. This intelligence is seen in such people as singers and songwriters, rock musicians, dancers, composers, and music teachers.

Visual Meaning
Draw the following: 1.Democracy 2.Translucent 3.Quit India Movement 4.Congruent 5.Adverb

Visual Spatial Intelligence

Ability to Observe, Imagine visualize and Compose, Arrange, design, assemble Create visual-spatial representations of the world and to transfer them mentally or concretely. Students who exhibit spatial intelligence need a mental or physical picture to best understand new information: do well with maps, charts, and diagrams: and like mazes and puzzles. They are strong in drawing, designing, and creating things. Professionals who use this intelligence include graphic artists. Cartographers, draftspersons, architects, painters, and sculptors.

Interview Time
Against each food category from the FOOD PYRAMID write one of your favourite dish. Now interview atleast ten of your friends to see: 1> How many like what you like? 2> What is that they like? 3> Further analyze how balanced is yours and your friends diet

Interpersonal Intelligence
Ability to Understand others their needs, wants and emotions Listening, communicating with others Build relationship with others. Offer support Share time, thoughts and resources work effectively with other people and to understand them and recognize their goals, motivations, and intentions Students who exhibit this intelligences thrive on cooperative work have strong leadership skills, and are skilled at organizing, communicating, mediating, and negotiating. This intelligence is usually seen in such people as teachers, therapists, Salespeople, counselors, politicians, religious leaders, and business executives. comedians, poets, and actors.

Math Logic Intelligence

Ability to Reason, Manipulate Patterns Analytical thinking, Building (system) models Planning, systematic evaluation Working with actual numbers Problem Solving Challenges Students who excel in this intelligence have strong problem-solving and reasoning skills and questions in a logical manner. They can also excel in science-related logic and problem-solving. This intelligence can be seen in such people as scientists, bankers, mathematicians, computer programmers, lawyers, and accountants.

Naturalistic Intelligence
Ability to Be sensitive and relate to elements of nature Understand relationships, interconnections and interdependence in nature Distinguish, classify, see patterns and use features of environment This intelligence may be seen in the way we relate to our surroundings and the role each part of our surroundings play. This intelligence is highly developed in such people as naturalist, nature researchers, zoologist, botanist,

Intrapersonal Intelligence
Ability to

understand one's own emotions, goals, and intentions . Internalize, connect (and learn) deeply with own experiences Dream, Meditate Stay with ones feelings, Judge and assess self, Questioning self

Students strong in intrapersonal intelligence have a strong sense of self, are confident, and can enjoy working alone. They have good instincts about their strengths and abilities. This intelligence is highly developed in such people as philosophers, psychiatrists, religious leaders, and brain researchers, comedians, poets, and actors.

Act it Out
1.How Day & Night happen on Earth. 2.Principle on which a Sewing machine works. 3.The difference between adjective and adverb. 4.What are prime numbers.

Body kinesthetic Intelligence

involves using your body to solve problems, make things, and convey ideas and emotions. Students who are strong in this intelligensce are good at physical activities, hand-eye coordination, and have a tendency to move around, touch things, and gesture. Professionals who use this intelligence include actors, athletes, surgeons, mimes, musicians, dancers, and inventors.

So what about MI?

Its not how much but HOW the child is intelligent - Accept Exposure to all Intelligences - all round development I learn best through my Intelligence -

accelerate learning

Natural Potential - 1
Its not how much but HOW the child is intelligent - Hence - no comparison, no standard scale of measurement
So if my child is more musically inclined that does not mean that he is less intelligent than the neighbours child who does wonders in maths tests. They are both DIFFERENTLY intelligent.

Natural Potential - 2
Each one of us is born with strengths and gravitate towards activities involving them - Hence acceptance of my childs strong intelligence

So if my child all the time seems to be wanting to dance do I constantly nag her to study? Fortunately we have observed that when we ACCEPT the child the way the child is they are actually more than willing to make up in the other areas. Dont we all like to be accepted and valued for what we are?

Natural Potential - 3
I would naturally excel in fields involving my strong intelligences - Hence encouragement of those as possible career choices
Fortunately in todays world there are enough opportunity for anybody to excel, taste success and build a successful career in fields related to any intelligence. Everybody doesn't need to be a engineer or a doctor or an IT professional. All as parents we need to do is recognize and encourage the childs natural intelligence.

All round development

Exposure to all Intelligences Dont give importance to only few expand the childs development by exposing to all.
One realize that each one of us have all the eight intelligences. Its just the difference of expertise of each. Two, in life to be successful, we do require a combination of intelligences hence lets develop all to a minimum level. Three, and the most important reason is that for a child to discover which intelligence he or she is SMART in - it is important that he or she is exposed to activities involving all the eight intelligences.

Accelerated Learning
Child learn best through childs strong intelligences. Instead of teaching through our intelligence lets make the child learn through his/her intelligence

Once we shift focus from a teacher taught approach to a learner learned approach we realize the significance and impact of each child learning through his/her intelligence. So do we want learning to be interesting and enjoyable for the child? So if we want child to understand fractions can we teach the visual through pictures, Body-kinesthetic through physical play, musical through rhythms and its parts and so on. The next few slides give more examples of this:

Reflection
Make a mind map

1.K - what I knew 2.W - what I want to learn

3.L - what I learnt today

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Parting thoughts

Thank You
One way for me to understand each intelligence is to become aware of the various qualities people (including myself) exhibit when we excel in or totally enjoy something