Multiple Intelligences

Poll your students for Garner's Multiple Intelligences

Linguistic Intelligence
Does your student:

• Enjoys listening to other people talking? Get annoyed with people who use improper English? (for example, He don't know the answer.)
• Likes to learn new words?
• Gives good directions to others so that they understand the first time?
• Likes to tell stories? Enjoys reading books?
• Has a good memory for names, dates, and trivia?

If this sounds familiar, then your student might someday write a bestseller or become fluent in four languages.

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Does your child:

• Likes to work with computers and calculators?
• Enjoys math class?
• Easily adds numbers in his or her head?
• Enjoys doing science experiments?
• Asks a lot of questions about how things work?
• Enjoys chess, checkers, or other strategy games?
• Enjoys logic puzzles or brainteasers?

If so, then your student could one day design sky-scrapers or program computers.

Spatial Intelligence
Does your student:
 

• Prefer to draw pictures rather than tell stories?
• Find his or her way around a new place easily?
• Like to take things apart and then try to figure out how to put them back together?
• Read maps, charts, or diagrams more easily than text?
• Daydream more than peers?
• Build interesting three-dimensional constructions (like LEGO buildings)?
• Doodles a lot on notebooks?

If this is your student, then he or she could grow up to paint a masterpiece or fix car engines.

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Does your student:

• Find activities like riding a bicycle, skating, or walking on a balance beam easy?
• Use a lot of hand gestures and body movement when talking to friends?
• Run, swim, and exercise without getting tired?
• Learn to play new sports easily and quickly?
• Like to touch something he or she has just seen?
• Report different physical sensations while thinking or working?
• Cleverly mimic the gestures or mannerisms of others?
• Move, tap, or fidget while seated for a long time in one spot?

If yes, then your student could develop into an expert skier or someone who amuses his or her friends with hilarious impersonations.

Musical Intelligence
Does your student:
 

• Enjoy playing a musical instrument?
• Listen to music a lot?
• Hum or sing a lot?
• Cheer himself or herself up with songs when he or she is sad?
• Tell you when music sounds off-key?
• Have a good singing voice?
• Remember the melodies of songs?

If this is your student, then he or she may one day conduct a symphony or play in a steel drum band.

Interpersonal Intelligence
Does your student:
 

• Like to work and play with other kids?
• Understand how friends are feeling by looking at their faces?
• Have two or more close friends?
• Give advice to friends who have problems?
• Have a good sense of empathy or concern for others?
• Seem to be street-smart?
• Seem to be a natural leader of teams?

If you answered yes to most of these, your student might become someone's favorite teacher or the CEO of a big company.

Intrapersonal Intelligence
Does your student:
 

• Often need a quiet place to work or just be alone?
• Like to make collections of things that have special meaning to him or her?
• Remember his or her dreams?
• Display a sense of independence or strong will?
• Have a realistic sense of his or her strengths and weaknesses?
• Have an interest or hobby that he or she doesn't talk much about?
• Accurately express how he or she is feeling?

Sound familiar? Then your student could someday write great poetry or resist negative peer pressure and do the right thing for herself.

Naturalist Intelligence
Does your student:
 

• Enjoy collecting bugs, flowers, or rocks?
• Like to closely examine what he or she finds in nature?
• Keep detailed records of his or her observations in nature?
• Like to watch natural phenomena like the moon and the tides; and hear explanations about them?
• Become fascinated with one particular thing from nature and want to learn about it thoroughly?
• Want to become a geologist, biologist, or some other type of scientist?

If your answer is yes, then your student could become an expert on paleontology or discover new ways to save the whales.

From Familyeducation.com’s Multiple Intelleginces Survery.  Based on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence theory.

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