What is the Multiple Intelligence Theory of Learning?
The theory of Multiple Intelligences was first introduced in the book, Frames of Mind (1983) by Dr. Howard Gardner. His ideas on human learning behaviors have sparked a revolution of sorts in classrooms across the world for the ways in which he challenges the notion of a single, fixed intelligence (Checkley, 1997). The term ‘Multiple Intelligences’ has quickly become a buzz word among educators. For years, teachers recognized that traditional measures of intelligence, such as an IQ test, may have been reasonably good at predicting a student’s school performance, but they did not accurately represent and assess the diversity of ways in which people learn. Gardner’s ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences’ encourages educators to start thinking of intelligence as a set of many different abilities and skills that help an individual learner comprehend, examine, and respond to many different types on content in order to solve problems or to make something that is valued in one or more cultures (C
