Multiple+Intelligences

= __Multiple Intelligences__ =

Visual/Spatial Intelligence (Picture Smart)
**ABILITY TO BE VISUAL -** These learners tend to think in pictures and need to create vivid mental images to retain information. They enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos, and movies.

**Skills:** puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, a good sense of direction, sketching, painting, creating visual metaphors and analogies (perhaps through the visual arts), manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, interpreting visual images.

navigators, sculptors, visual artists, inventors, architects, interior designers, mechanics, engineers
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**ABILITY TO USE WORDS AND LANGUAGE -** These learners have highly developed auditory skills and are generally elegant speakers. They think in words rather than pictures.

listening, speaking, writing, story telling, explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, convincing someone of their point of view, analyzing language usage.
 * Skills: **

Poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, translator
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**ABILITY TO USE REASON, LOGIC, AND NUMBERS -** These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Always curious about the world around them, these learner ask lots of questions and like to do experiments.

problem solving, classifying and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts to figure out the relationship of each to the other, handling long chains of reason to make local progressions, doing controlled experiments, questioning and wondering about natural events, performing complex mathematical calculations, working with geometric shapes
 * Skills: **

Scientists, engineers, computer programmers, researchers, accountants, mathematicians
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ABILITY TO CONTROL BODY MOVEMENTS AND HANDLE OBJECTS SKILLFULLY -** These learners express themselves through movement. They have a good sense of balance and eye-hand co-ordination. (e.g. ball play, balancing beams). Through interacting with the space around them, they are able to remember and process information.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, expressing emotions through the body
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Athletes, physical education teachers, dancers, actors, firefighters, artisans
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ABILITY TO PRODUCE AND CREATE MUSIC -** These musically inclined learners think in sounds, rhythms and patterns. They immediately respond to music either appreciating or criticizing what they hear. Many of these learners are extremely sensitive to environmental sounds (e.g. crickets, bells, dripping taps).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">singing, whistling, playing musical instruments, recognizing tonal patterns, composing music, remembering melodies, understanding the structure and rhythm of music
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">musician, disc jockey, singer, composer
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<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interpersonal Intelligence (Social-People Smart)
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ABILITY TO RELATE AND UNDERSTAND OTHERS -** These learners try to see things from other people's point of view in order to understand how they think and feel. They often have an uncanny ability to sense feelings, intentions and motivations. They are great organizers, although they sometimes resort to manipulation. Generally they try to maintain peace in group settings and encourage co-operation.They use both verbal (e.g. speaking) and non-verbal language (e.g. eye contact, body language) to open communication channels with others.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seeing things from other perspectives (dual-perspective), listening, using empathy, understanding other people's moods and feelings, counseling, co-operating with groups, noticing people's moods, motivations and intentions, communicating both verbally and non-verbally, building trust, peaceful conflict resolution, establishing positive relations with other people.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Counselor, salesperson, politician, business person
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<span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Intrapersonal Intelligence (Self Smart)
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **ABILITY TO BE AWARE OF THEIR INNER BEING** - These learners try to understand their inner feelings, dreams, relationships <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> with others and strengths and weaknesses.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skills: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> dreams, evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Possible Career Interests:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Researchers, theorists, philosophers

<span style="background-color: #8c3cdf; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Naturalistic Intelligence (Nature Smart)
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **ABILITY TO SEE THINGS IN NATURE** - These learners have the ability to pick out details about birds, animals, stones, clouds, trees and plants that others never see. They understand animals, how the weather works, and can cultivate beautiful gardens. They can recognize, understand and appreciate the patterns and relationships they see in nature.

Can pick out details about birds, animals, stones, clouds, trees and plants, that others never see. They understand animals, how the weather works, and can cultivate beautiful gardens.
 * Skills:**

Farmers, vets, biologists, gardeners and environmentalists.
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