What are Multiple Intelligences, Learning Styles?
Multiple intelligences, briefly, refers to the several ways in which all of us learn. We are used to thinking that people are intelligent, as though that were a single quality. In fact, each of us is more or less intelligent in many different ways. • Some of us learn best by actively doing things such as playing games, acting, dancing, and solving puzzle or task cards. • Some would rather listen to lectures, read, tell stories, write and mess about with words in some fashion. • Some of us need the rhythm of music, perhaps just in the background to learn fast and well. Sounds, instruments, group readings and even nonsense words may be keys to the best learning. • There are folks who can get a feel for new material if they can understand how the parts and spaces of a project relate to each other. These learners need to look at charts and diagrams, build models, imagine things in detail and use color highlighters whenever possible to note things in books. • There are learners who thrive o
