Week IX

Multiple Intelligences 

This week was full of new and interesting topics. If we ever have to dedicate our lives to teaching. Everyone must know that we are all is different, and we are able to learn anything just as much as the smartest kid in the classroom. We just happen to be better learners when we are given the chance to learn through the learning style we have affinity with. 

But before learning about the different learning styles, we had to learn about the multiple intelligences first: 

The theory of Multiple Intelligences was developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner. When you hear the word intelligence, the concept of IQ testing may immediately come to mind. Intelligence is often defined as our intellectual potential; something we are born with, something that can be measured, and a capacity that is difficult to change.

In recent years, however, other views of intelligence have emerged, including Gardner's suggestion that multiple different types of intelligence may exist. The eight intelligences according to Gardner are:

At the end of the week, although some of us had an idea of what type of intelligences we have been able to develop we still had to know for sure, so our professor Lic. Orlando brought a quick test that we completed in class, it was so much fun since we had to color the wheel at the end. And it seems like the intelligences that require body movement are not really my forte.