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There’s More Than One Way to Be Smart! Have you ever noticed that a student who’s really good at one subject often struggles in another? For example, a student who takes on the most heinous algebra equation with complete ease, may struggle with an oral presentation in history, or a student who expresses a complex concept through art, can’t explain it in an essay. Why? In Chapter 6 you learned about VAK learning styles. Learning styles relate to informational input – how a person most efficiently takes in and processes information. What about the other side of the coin? Do people have a dominant informational output mode? In the 1980s, a professor of education at Harvard University named Dr. Howard Gardner, thought a lot about how people show their intelligence. He believed that the traditional measure of intelligence – based on an IQ test measuring only math and verbal abilities, was too limited. Intelligence, he argued, is more than a score on a test! Intelligence has many forms, and can be displayed in many ways. In fact, Dr. Gardner identified eight types of intelligence. These are now referred to as Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. Just like learning styles, everyone has a dominant intelligence.
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Learning Goals By the end of this chapter you will be able to: 1. Summarize Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. 2. Explain the benefits of knowing your intelligence type. 3. Design a variety of responses to a project based on intelligence types. 4. Discover your dominant intelligence type.
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