MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES Its not whether youre intelligent its

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES It’s not whether you’re intelligent; it’s HOW you’re intelligent.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES QUIZ On a sheet of paper, write out the words “Section 1, ” “Section 2, ” etc. through “Section 9. ” Make sure to leave a line or two below each section title. Using the Multiple Intelligences Inventory, mark a tally for each statement in each section that applies to you. Once you’ve gone through each section, count up the number of tallies you have for each section and write it next to the section number. Put a star (*) next to your top 3 sections and put a pound sign (#) next to your bottom 3 sections.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES QUIZ - CONTINUED Section 1 – Naturalistic Section 2 – Musical Section 3 – Logical Section 4 – Existential Section 5 – Interpersonal Section 6 – Kinesthetic Section 7 – Verbal Section 8 – Intrapersonal Section 9 – Visual

DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WITH YOUR NEW GROUP: What does it mean to be intelligent in our society? What abilities do schools tend to value and promote? How do we measure a person’s intelligence? Think about these questions individually AND in terms of “grit” from last period.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES Traditional Definition: the capacity and demonstration of the capacity to learn, understand, and reason So. . . What does that mean?

THE THEORY OF MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES Howard Gardner’s theory, developed in 1983, that proposes people are not born with all of the types of intelligence they will ever have. Intelligence can be learned throughout life (remember, growth mindset? ) Everyone is intelligent in at least seven different ways and can develop each aspect of intelligence to an average level of competency Intelligence is, then, the ability to solve problems or fashion products that are valuable in one or more cultural setting.

IT’S NOT HOW SMART YOU ARE. . . It’s how you are smart! Think about some of your own strengths. In what ways are you smart?

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

CAN YOU DEFINE INTELLIGENCE FOR. . . Walt Disney?

CAN YOU DEFINE INTELLIGENCE FOR. . . Stephen Curry?

CAN YOU DEFINE INTELLIGENCE FOR. . . Melissa Mc. Carthy?

CAN YOU DEFINE INTELLIGENCE FOR. . . Missy Elliott?

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE • William Shakespeare • Edgar Allen Poe • Ernest Hemmingway • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Emily Dickinson • Agatha Christie • T. S. Eliot • Rudyard Kipling • JK Rowling

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH MATHEMATIC INTELLIGENCE • • • Einstein Pythagoras Newton Pascal Archimedes Euclid Copernicus Plato Galileo Aristotle

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE Isadora Duncan Cincinnatus Fabergè Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Babe Ruth Jim Thorpe Kristi Yamaguchi Mickey Mantle Thomas Edison

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE Ansel Adams (photographer) Amelia Earhart Auguste Rodin (sculptor) Robert Fulton (inventor) Michelangelo Leonardo Da Vinci Pablo Picasso Spike Lee Vincent Van Gogh Frank Lloyd Wright (architect) Steven Spielberg

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE Joan Baez Zubin Mehta Ethel Merman Jean Redpath Gustav Mahler Leonard Bernstein Ella Fitzgerald Jenny Lind Stephen Foster Antonio Stradivari Ludwig van Beethoven Ray Charles Robert Schumann Sergei Rachmaninoff Yehudi Menuhin Willie Nelson The Mavericks Lawrence Welk George Gershwin Selena Quintanilla

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Abraham Lincoln George Washington Ghandi Dr. Joyce Brothers Oprah Winfrey Jesse Jackson Martin Luther King Jr Rev. Billy Graham

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE Aristotle * * Emily Dickinson * General George Patton * Helen Keller * Malcolm X

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH NATURALIST INTELLIGENCE Charles Darwin Viktor Schauberger Gerald Durrell

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH EXISTENTIAL INTELLIGENCE Friedrich Nietzsche Soren Kierkegaard Martin Heidegger Karl Jaspers Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus Simone de Beauvoir

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ONE PARAGRAPH: -To whom on the previous list do you most relate? Why? -What type of intelligence best suits you? Why? -What are some of your strengths because of this type of intelligence? -What are some weaknesses you might need to overcome? How can you do that?

NOW, LET’S ADD ON. ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN ITS OWN PARAGRAPH: P 2 - Where are you with life right now? Think both personally and academically when answering this question. P 3 - What type of student are you aiming to be this school year? Be specific! P 4 - Set 2 -3 goals: two must be academic, one can be personal. Why are these goals important to you?