Howard Gardner Multiple Intelligences

The Howard Gardner 8 Multiple Intelligences system (which has evolved into the “9 Multiple Intelligences”) is the inspiration for what we are now calling simply “Multiple Intelligences” or “Multi-Intelligence” for short. The original Gardner 8 Intelligences differentiated intelligence into 8 specific (primarily sensory) “modalities” rather than seeing it as dominated by a single general ability. This page is meant to function as an ever-expanding archive of open source, free-shared, and duplicable Howard Gardner 8 Multiple Intelligences inspired ideas that we expect to expand beyond the 9 Intelligences currently identified by the Howard Gardner system. As we expand this component even further we will continue to organize the information here into the primary components of the One Community Education Program: Curriculum for Life, Teaching Strategies for Life, Learning Tools and Toys for Life, and building The Ultimate Classroom. These components are designed to be combined to create endless “Lesson Plans for Life” purposed to grow and evolve what we feel will be the most comprehensive, effective, and diversely applicable free-education program and resource archive in the world. The One Community Foundations of Teaching, Leadership, and Communicating, combined with a collaborative Evaluation and Evolution Component (Portfolio Creation and Maintenance), help us to further grow and adapt both the program and as individuals.

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Howard Gardner 8 Multiple Intelligences

If you have ideas from the Howard Gardner 8 Multiple Intelligences style of teaching that you feel should be added to this developing resource guide, please use our Education for Life Collaborative Input Page. Thus far our research into the Gardner 8 Intelligences has focused on the theory of multiple intelligences, 8 intelligences test, expanded 9 Intelligences system, and how to apply these. Our goal is to list here what we feel are the best, simplest, and most usable tools with application and benefit for all ages?

NOTE: One Community does not believe there is any one system that is the best. It is our Highest Good of All philosophy to look at all systems and all methodologies. Our goal is to learn and integrate everything we can to better inspire and create the Education for Life program as an open source and free-shared globally collaborative and accessible program available to positively contribute to the education of anyone who chooses to use it.

Here is our continually evolving list of  Multi-Intelligences inspired ideas divided into the categories of the Education for Life program:

8 Intelligences Foundations of Leadership, Teaching, and Communicating

If you’d like to help us make this list better, please submit your 8 Intelligences inspired suggestions so that we can integrate them here and into the Foundations of Teaching, Leadership, and Communicating component.

● Be aware of the different intelligences and teach to as many simultaneously as possible;
● Initiate conversation and sharing and encourage it between and with students as much as possible;
● Hands on touching, smelling, etc. (ex. plants/rocks, etc. outdoors) is preferable to pictures in a book;
● Use visualization to practice the steps or sequence of a task before starting the activity;
● ???

8 Intelligences Curriculum Ideas

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● Music and Memory: Using music as a learning tool and memory aid;
● Visualization: Learning the skills of creating and manipulating pictures with our minds;
● Categorization: Learning how to identify similarities and differences in all things, no matter how unrelated, and then categorizing them;
● Selfhood: Understanding one’s self and the ability to act according to this knowledge. This is accomplished by modeling true-felt emotions with young children and creating a setting where expressing emotions is encouraged and children are allowed to observe the range of emotions of others;
● ???

8 Intelligences Teaching Strategies

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● Use visualization to practice the steps or sequence of a task before starting the activity;
● Use theater to explore personal interests, learn art through set design, different characters to explore language;
● Partner/Buddy chefs for encouraging art through creative cuisine & communication (interpretation, listening, explaining) through the partners translation to the class;
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8 Intelligences Tearning Tools and Toys

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● Songs for counting, colors, names, and other familiar objects promote learning through musical intelligence;
● The use of manipulatives in teaching math to combine bodily-kinesthetic intelligence with other intelligences;
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8 Intelligences Classroom Design

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● Mini construction site to learn geometry & design;
● Classroom kitchen set up to learn chemistry and math;
● Group circles on the floor for learning math and other traditionally structured subjects;
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