Multiple Intelligences

What are multiple intelligences?

When talking about multiple intelligences, we are not making reference to an only intelligence, but to a set of different, multiple and independent intelligences. That means you can be brilliant at English and hopeless at Mathematics.

What it means taking into account multiples intelligences when teaching?

It means to adapt our way of teaching to each child, so that they can learn better. Everybody have all the intelligences, although one is always more developed than the others. Those kinds of intelligences are:

1.  Logical-mathematical 
2. Spatial
3.  Linguistic
4. Bodily-kinesthetic
5.  Musical
6.  Interpersonal
7. Intrapersonal
8. Naturalistic

What are the advantages of putting into practice this method?

The fact of using multiple intelligences in education has some positive effects, such as:

·         Make easier the task of learning for students.

·         Reduce the school dropout rate.

The most important aim of multiple intelligences is not to doom to failure those students who can be good at some field, but to make the most of their main intelligence to learn, and to boost the others.

See also: Naturalistic Intelligence