Episode 8 - Differentiation (Multiple Intelligences)
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In today's episode, James will advocate for the employment of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and how they can enhance not only your classroom structure, management, and achievement, but also differentiation!
What are multiple intelligences and how do they affect learning?
- Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence: Well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words.
- Mathematical-Logical Intelligence: The ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and the capacity to discern logical or numerical patterns.
- Musical Intelligence: The ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timbre.
- Visual-Spatial Intelligence: The capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly.
- Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence: The ability to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully.
- Interpersonal Intelligence: The capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others.
- Intrapersonal Intelligence: The capacity to be self-aware and in tune with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes.
- Naturalist Intelligence: The ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature.
- Existential Intelligence: The sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why we die and how we got here.
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