Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner has identified eight distinct intelligences. You can see them in this picture:

Here’s a brief explanation about them:

• Visual-Spatial: Involves visual perception of the environment, the ability to create and manipulate mental images, and the orientation of the body in space.
• Verbal-Linguistic: Involves reading, writing, speaking, and conversing in one’s own or foreign languages.
• Logical-Mathematical: Involves number and computing skills, recognizing patterns and relationships, timeliness and order, and the ability to solve different kinds of problems through logic.
• Bodily-Kinesthetic: Involves physical coordination and dexterity, using fine and gross motor skills, and expressing oneself or learning through physical activities.
• Musical: Involves understanding and expressing oneself through music and rhythmic movements or dance, or composing, playing, or conducting music.
• Interpersonal: Involves understanding how to communicate with and understand other people and how to work collaboratively.
• Intrapersonal: Involves understanding one’s inner world of emotions and thoughts, and growing in the ability to control them and work with them consciously.
• Naturalist: Involves understanding the natural world of plants and animals, noticing their characteristics, and categorizing them; it generally involves keen observation and the ability to classify other things as well.

I strongly believe that each one of us has a bit of all of them, although we may have some aspects in which we stand out. In my opinion, I find that I am a verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical and interpersonal person.

In this link, there are some activities that could be done in order to reinforce children’s multiple intelligences:

http://examinedexistence.com/how-to-improve-all-9-types-of-intelligences/