MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

According to HowardGardner, (1993) all human beings have multiple intelligences that can be nurtured and strengthened, or ignored and weakened. He believes each individual possesses nine(9) intelligences.

1. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence - a well developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings, and rhythms of words. People with this intelligence can be writers, lawyers, or journalists.

2. Mathematical Intelligence - ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and the capacity to discern logical or numerical patterns. If one has this ability then he is “number smart " and can be engineers, accountants, or statisticians.

3. Musical Intelligence - ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber. A person with this ability is "music smart". They can be musicians, singers, or musical composers.

4. Visual- Spatial Intelligence - capacity to think of images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly. People with this Intelligence can be artists, designers, architects or sculptors.

5. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence- ability to control one's body movements, handle objects skillfully and can also use the body to express emotion like in dancing. Persons with this Intelligence are "body smart" and can be dancers, athletes or sports people.

6. Interpersonal Intelligence - capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others. It is how one relates person to person. If one has this capacity he is "people smart". Anyone with this Intelligence can be therapists, counselors, clergymen or psychologists.

7. Intrapersonal Intelligence - capacity to be self-aware and I'm tube with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes. This person is "self smart". He can be a theorist, philosopher or researcher and can be an achiever in his own right.

8. Naturalist Intelligence - ability to recognize plants, animals or flora and fauna, and other objects in nature. This pertains to "nature smart"and can be botanists or agriculturists.

9. Existential Intelligence - sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence, such as the meaning of life, why do things perish and or can one survive suffering.

REFLECTION:

Each of us has unique intellectual potential. I possesses Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence since I have an ability to control movement and I know to dance.