Recognizing the Students' Intelligences Earlier (original) (raw)

Most teachers have heard about Multiple Intelligences and learning styles nowadays. However, how many teachers know what is all about, and how to distinct the number of intelligences? The current issue that concerns in Multiple Intelligences has been widely spread out since its developing in the 1983 by Howard Gardner. The change of paradigm on human intelligence slowly moved, from IQ test into MI theory which concerns on human's intelligences. This article is aimed to explain how Multiple Intelligence theory works to determine children' intelligences in order to provide suitable teaching and learning process for students. Identifying and recognizing students' intelligence then becomes important for the teachers in teaching and learning process. MI theory proposed nine intelligences which had its own characteristics, they are: linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic and existential intelligence. B...