- 1). Choose an available Multiple Intelligence survey or compile your own. Make the survey a homework assignment to investigate how students learn. Administer the Multiple Intelligence survey to learners early in the school year to identify their natural intelligences. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences offers a curriculum and instructional style adapted to the individual for the best learning outcome.
- 2). Graph student answers on a bar graph. Use a different color for an individual intelligence. If a student's answer to a question indicates an audible sound, the student colors a red square over audible on the individual graph. If the answer statement is visual, the learner colors a red square over visual on the graph. The intelligence or color displaying the most filled-in blocks shows the child's individual intelligence strength. The graph also indicates the student's proximity to other intelligences, along with asserting each person has a different intellectual composition.
- 3). Illustrate each student name tag by writing the child's name in the same graph color denoting primary intelligence. The learner colors a border around the name tag to match the graph color, indicating the intelligence -- or color -- with the second most blocks colored in. This method of group class organization differentiates learners by appropriate strengths and weaknesses. Lesson design reigns paramount for successful classroom organization with Multiple Intelligence surveys. For successful student outcomes, educators must continually provide a variety of resources that help implement the theory into classroom exercises.
- 4). Think of lesson planning in relationship to satisfying the needs of various intelligences. Start each study unit using an overhead Knows/ Wants to Know /Learned (KWL) chart -- a visual representation of student knowledge, new knowledge and knowledge learned at lesson's end -- to begin the discussion. In conjunction with Multiple Intelligence survey classroom organization, this prompts a student-centered model of teaching. Visual, colored name tags remind instructors to reinforce concepts by employing different teaching strategies. Allow students to take turns sharing known bits of information in the manner that best reflects their intelligence strength.
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