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Howard Gardner
By Bobby Cooke
Table of Contents
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About Howard Gardner
Project Zero
Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Implementations of Theory of Multiple
Intelligences
• Why is Multiple Intelligences Successful
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• Teachers Role
• Technology’s Role
• Teaching to Multiple Intelligences in today’s
classroom
• Implications for Adult Learning
• Quiz
About Howard Gardner
• Developmental psychologist
• Professor Harvard Graduate School of
Education
• Harvard Project Zero
• Theory of Multiple Intelligences
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Project Zero
• Educational Research Group
– Founded by Nelson Goodman
– Howard Gardner founding research assistant
• Co-director 1972-2000 (with David Gardner)
• Goal is to understand and build on human
cognitive development
– Processes of Learning in the arts and other disciplines
• Places learner at center of educational process
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Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• Traditional notion of Intelligence to limited
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– Focus on Linguistic and logical-mathematical Intelligence
• Different Methods of learning and processing
– Individual of one another
– Different Intelligences
• Bodily-kinesthetic , Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Linguistic, Logicalmathematical, Musical, Naturalist, and Spatial
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Implementation of Theory of Multiple
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Intelligences
Art
• 8 different Pathways to learning
– One for each type of learner
– Use of experiences in natural world (naturalist), pictures
(spatial), a physical experience(bodily-kinesthetic), music
(musical), numbers or logic (logical-mathematical), selfreflection (intrapersonal), social experience
(interpersonal), and words (Linguistic)
• Train Teachers to present their lessons in multiple ways
– Using music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play,
multimedia, field trips, inner reflection, along with
traditional methods
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Why is the Multiple Intelligences
model successful
• Each student has opportunity to excel in at
least one area
• Each student learns a subject matter in a
variety of different ways, creating more
chances of success and retaining information
• Adapts to students rather than having
students adapt to it
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Teachers Role in a Multiple
Intelligences program
• Observe students from different perspectives
– How do they learn best?
• Pushing students rather than pulling
• Working with students rather than for them
• Become more creative and multimodal in own
learning
– Development in self
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Technology Use in a Multiple
Intelligences Program
• Computers widely available in some areas
– Allows for students to learn at own pace
– Students have access to many tools that may cater
to their individual needs
• A lot of information available
• Programs with audio content, programs with great
visual representation , etc.
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Implementing a Multiple Intelligences
Program in Today’s classroom
• Assessment drives instruction
– Tough to assess untraditional intelligences
• Curriculum is rigid and inflexible at times
• Educational reforms only happen in times of
crisis
– Tough to make changes
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Implications for adult learning and
development
• Theory of Multiple Intelligences not just for kids
• A lot of adults are not in jobs that make optimal
use of their highest developed intelligence
– (May be a Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence working in a
logical desk-job when they would be better placed in
a job where they could move around like a forest
ranger, recreational leader, or physical therapist)
• Gives adults a new way to look at their lives
– Examining potentials they left behind that they can
now develop through work, courses, or even hobbies
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Quiz Goals
• Show knowledge of Howard Gardner
• Understand Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• Apply Theory of Multiple Intelligences to
classroom situations
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Question #1
• Howard Gardner co-directed a program called
– A. Project Zero
– B. No child left behind
– C. 8 Kinds of Smart
– D. Project Eight
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Question #2
• What is not one of Dr. Howard Gardner’s eight
different Intelligences in his Theory of
Multiple Intelligences?
– A. Linguistic
– B. Spatial
– C. Intrapersonal
– D. Competititional
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Question #3
• Traditional Notions of Intelligence Focus on
what 2 of Howard Gardner’s 8 multiple
intelligences
– A. Linguistic and Logical-Mathematical
– B. Interpersonal and Linguistic
– C. Logical-Mathematical and Spatial
– D. Bodily-Kinesthetic and Intrapersonal
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Question #4
• Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple
Intelligences can be implemented
– A. for children under age 7
– B. for children under age 12
– C. for all age kids in school
– D. for learners of all ages
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Question #5
• If you’re teaching about the law of supply and
demand in economics and your dealing with a
linguistic learner (words) you should try to
teach the lesson by having the student
– A. examine a graphic chart that illustrates the
principle
– B. examine the law in terms of your own body
– C. read about it
– D. write a song about it
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• Hope you enjoyed
Bibliography
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• Winner, Ellen. The history of howard gardner. Retrieved
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• Winner, Ellen(2010).Research projects. Project Zero.
Retrieved from
pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/Research.htm