7 Ways Of Knowing: Multiple Intelligences

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7 Ways Of Knowing Multiple Intelligences
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People Smarts

• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal

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Intrapersonal Intelligence

• self-reflective abilities - step outside of
  ourselves and think about our own lives
• introspective intelligence - wanting to know the
  meaning, purpose, and significance of things
• awareness of the inner world of the self,
  emotions, values, believes, and our various
  quests for genuine spirituality

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Continued Intrapersonal

• If this intelligence is one of your strong
  points
• like to work alone
• shy away from others
• self-reflective and self-aware - in-tune with
  your inner feelings, values, beliefs, and
  thinking processes
• creative wisdom and insight
• highly intuitive
• inwardly motivated rather than needing external
  rewards
• often strong willed, self-confident, and have
  definite, well-thought out opinions
• Other people come to you for advice

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Interpersonal Intelligence

• person-to-person way of knowing
• knowing that happens when we work with and relate
  to other people often as part of a team
• uses social skills that are needed for effective
  person-to-person communication
• you learn through personal interactions

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Continued Interpersonal

• If this a strong area
• have a lot of friends
• show great deal of empathy for other people
• exhibit an understanding of other view points
• love team activities of all kinds and are a good
  team member
• sensitive to others feelings and ideas
• skilled at conflict, resolution, mediation, and
  finding compromise

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Ways in Which We Are
Smart
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Verbal-Linguistic

• Verbal-linguistic (sometimes called word smart
  or book smart).
• involves knowing which comes through reading,
  writing, and speaking
• understanding the order and meaning of words in
  both speech and writing
• properly use the language

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Continued Verbal

• If this is a strong intelligence for you
• highly developed skills for reading, speaking,
  and writing
• think in words
• like various kinds of literature, playing word
  games, writing poetry and stories, getting into
  involved discussions, debating, formal speaking,
  creative writing, and telling jokes
• precise in expressing yourself and irritated when
  others are not
• love learning new words
• do well on written assignments

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Kinesthetic

• learning by doing - physical movements the
  knowing of our physical body
• The body knows many things that are not
  necessarily known by the logical mind, such as
  how to ride a bike or parallel park a car
• keen sense of body awareness
• communicate well through body language

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Continued Kinesthetic

• If Kinesthetic is a strength
• perform tasks much better after seeing someone
  else do it first
• like physical games of all kinds
• find it difficult to sit still for long periods
  of time
• easily bored or distracted if not actively
  involved

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Auditory

• knowing that happens though sound and vibration
• music and rhythmic patterns

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Continued Auditory

• If Auditory is a strength
• very sensitive to sounds in the environment like
  the chirp of a cricket
• may study and work better with music in the
  background
• can often reproduce a melody pattern after
  hearing it only once
• various sounds, tones, and rhythms may have a
  visible effect on you
• like to create music and enjoy listening to a
  wide variety of music
• skilled at mimicking sounds, language, accents,
  and others speech patterns

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Logical-Mathematical

• This intelligence uses numbers, math, and logic
  to find and understand patterns in the real world
• Tendency to think more conceptually and
  abstractly and are often able to see patterns and
  relationships in others miss

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Continued Logical

• Those who are logical
• conduct experiments, solve puzzles, and other
  problems
• enjoy working with numbers and mathematical
  formulas
• systematic and organized
• always have a logical rationale or argument for
  what you are doing or thinking at any given time

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Visual

• We often say A picture is worth a thousand
  words! this intelligence represents the knowing
  that occurs through the shapes, images, patterns,
  designs, and textures
• see with eyes, but also include all the images
  inside the brain
• think in images and pictures - aware of objects,
  shapes, colors, textures, and patterns in the
  environment

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Continued Visual

• Visual people
• like to draw, paint, and make interesting designs
  and patterns
• love to work with jigsaw puzzles and read maps
• have definite opinions about colors that go
  together well
• excellent at performing tasks that require
  seeing with minds eye, such as visualizing,
  pretending, imagining, and forming mental images