Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

The theory of multiple intelligences describes

• different learning styles

• the different ways people process information

• a one-size-fits-all approach

• the way everyone learns in the same way

True or False. Multiple intelligences and Learning styles mean the same thing.

• True

• False

Check all that are examples of Gardner's multiple intelligences:

• Musical Intelligence

• Brain intelligence

• Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence

• Naturalistic intelligence

Verbal-linguistic intelligence refers to being good with

• music and dancing

• math and numbers

• animals and nature

• words, speaking, and books

Who developed the theory of Multiple Intelligence?

• James Asher

• John Dewey

• Howard Gardner

• Augustine

What has the multiple intelligences infographic taught you about different ways people can be intelligent?

• You learn that people can learn best in only one way and fit onto only one category.

• You learned that people can be many different types of intelligences and not just fit into one category for how they learn best.

There is a list of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, with the strength associated with each area, in "The More You Know, the Smarter You Are?" in which is an athlete most likely to have strength?

• Bodily/Kinesthetic

• Musical

• Linguistic

• Logical/Mathematical

Which sentence best describes Howard Gardner's idea about human intelligence in "The More You Know, the Smarter You Are?"

• Being Educated is the most important thing in human intelligence.

• Life experience is the most important thing in determining human intelligence.

• Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests are the best way to determine human intelligence.

• Language and math abilities are not the only areas that contribute to human intelligence.

What type of learner are you?

• Visual

• Auditory

• Reading/Writing

• Kinesthetic

Which of the following indicates the learning style of an ELL who is interested in mathematics, can see planes in algebra, and can understand what an author means but does not specifically express?

• Concrete

• Analytic

• Communicative

• Authority-oriented