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Essay / Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Education is an essential step in the development of an individual because it instills values and information important to our society. However, learning to educate these people requires attention and adequate skill on the part of the instructor. Many theorists recognize that students learn in different ways and that no two students are exactly alike. It is therefore important to implement practical values from educational theories when teaching. Personality learning theories help indicate how personality influences understanding in the classroom. The theory of multiple intelligences was developed by Howard Gardner in 1983 to identify multiple types of human intellect. He theorized that every intelligence is evident in a person, although some are more prevalent than others. Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences is an important theory that can lead to significant academic improvement for students whose educators take it into account when teaching. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences identifies eight different areas of intelligence and their strengths in the classroom. The domains of intelligence are: verbal/linguistic, mathematical/logical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. Each area of intelligence has a particular strength which therefore enhances learning. For example, students who have stronger verbal/linguistic intelligence will be able to write and read well and will learn better by hearing and seeing words, speaking and debating. However, a student who has stronger bodily/kinesthetic intelligence will have strengths in athletics, tool use, and acting and will learn best through touch, movement, sensation, and processing (Gile... ... middle of paper... ... disciplines, but it is the method of improving their intelligence that the theory examines Overall, the theory of multiple intelligence is a practical and useful way to. 'help educators and students in an educational environment identify how they should convey information to their students, and students can best interpret how they learn. Additionally, students can understand in which intelligences. they excel and use this knowledge to help them during their studies, in their work and in their personal lives There are many different ways to be intellectual, which challenges all the traditional views that only certain people have. can be intelligent. It is important for each individual to recognize this because it ensures that there is a self-esteem that is developed by identifying each person's unique strengths and strengths. weaknesses.