1. Multiple Intelligences

2. Howard Gardner Birth date: 7/11/1943 Birthplace: Scranton, Pennsylvania Occupation: psychologist

3. Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a criticism of the notion that there exists only one single human intelligence. During the past twenty five years, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design of performance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

4. In 1986, he began to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education while continuing his long-term involvement with Project Zero, a research group in human cognition that maintains a special focus on the arts. He lectures publicly on such topics as education, intelligence, creativity, leadership, professional responsibility, disciplinary and interdisciplinary study, good work, good play, and the arts.

5. It refers to the variety of learning styles that every person has in varying degrees. In each individual, different intelligences predominate.

6. Intelligences: Interpersonal (people smart) Musical/ rhythmic (music smart) Bodily/Kinesthetic (body smart)

7. Continued… Visual/ spatial (picture/drawing smart) Logical/mathematical (number smart) Verbal/linguistic (word smart) Intrapersonal (self-smart)

8. METACOGNITION – thinking about YOUR own thinking

9.  Naturalist  Existential