multiple intelligences

Multiple intelligence means that there are many different ways for a person to be smart. People have all different intelligence's. Gardner says that these are the following areas in which a person can be intelliegent: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. Teachers use intelligence's as pathways to teach content. Specifically in a classroom that has different ages, it is crucial for the teachers to teach using multiple intelligence in order for each student to learn best. When using the multiple intelligence, it gives ALL the students entry points to get involved. In the video, the teacher used M.I in teaching a lesson about the growth of a flower by bringing in props, having visual aids, and the students needed to label, dissect and then talk about it. It was a great example of reaching out to all the types of learners. A teacher must plan activities that incorporate  all the intelligence's so that the total lesson gives the concept to everyone in a way they understand it best. This is imperative in the lower elementary school years and also in high school and beyond. At all ages, the teacher must take the differences of all children seriously. In the younger grades, teachers can make activities, projects, arts, songs and skits. In high school this can be done too. The students can make skits, have group discussions, write essays, read novels, etc. This way, students at all ages can get good grades in something that they are good at. The goal is to build real world life skills so that the students think and interact with everyone and they take these skills with them. Students have the ability to develop all different intelligence's and that will make them into LIFE LONG LEARNERS!!