How would use Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory in the classroom?

               The main objective of this paper is to focus on multiple intelligence theory in order to apply it into the classroom so that students can probably be able to achieve their goals well and how much benefit can be obtained using it a better way in terms of tools for the betterment of the students in and outside of the class.

          The theory of Multiple intelligence was first introduced by Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner in 1983. He was the first psychologist based on child’s IQ testing.   The theory that he introduced play an important role for the assessment of students in the classroom. The intelligences are tools for learning and are cross-cultural in nature in that all people possess different degrees intelligence. It is very important for a teacher to know how to use the theories of multiple intelligence in the classroom. It is noteworthy that teachers should be trained to teach their lessons in various ways of teaching techniques so as to understand all individuals during the class. There are many techniques such as music, cooperative and dance ect that can be used as a tools for the different individuals in the class. However, it can be seen that there are many schools by teaching tradition methods, especially in our country. Therefore, it should be reformed using good techniques and better ways of teaching mothers for every individual.

           There are eight types of multiple intelligence which should be used in the classroom in order the students to understand well. It is needless to say that it is better way of teaching methods for different students. One way a teacher should know is that he should try to know different students’ learning styles.  By knowing these students are less capacity of doing in a particular subject while other can do it well. The teacher, of course, can easily overcome the problems facing during the classroom. One of the very significant example states that “if a child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns”. ( Rita Dumnn, from Anne Bruetshs’ Multiple Intelligence Lesson Plan Book)

Therefore, above quotation mentions that the teacher needs to know various types of learning style in order to teach the students in the class probably.

According to Dr, Richard week 4 PowerPoint, It states that people learn more deeply form words and pictures than from words alone and he mentions that there are three assumption of the multimedia principles:

1.      They are: there are two separate channels ( auditory and visual for processing information ( sometimes referred to as Dual –Coding theory);

2.      Each channel has a limited ( finite) capacity:

Learning is an active process if filtering, selecting, and organizing and integrating information based upon prior knowledge. ( Dr.Richard week 4 PowerPoint, pp 4)

According to Howard Gardner, there are eight kinds of multiple intelligences that should be known by every one of teacher. They are:

·         Verbal –linguistic skills

·         Logical-mathematical skills

·         Bodily –kinesthetic skills

·         Visual-spatial skills

·         Interpersonal abilities

·         Intrapersonal abilities

·         Musical abilities

·         Naturalistic abilities ( Woolfolk,anita.PP 133)

 All of these mentioned above are the key to be better way of teaching and learning and pay the way for the teacher to understand how to apply it in the class.

           In conclusion, the theories of multiple intelligences provide eight methods for the teacher to facilitate the students a positive learning outcome. All these mentioned above are the ways to approach better teaching individual to individual .