Howard Gardener's Multiple Learning Theory

Learning theories Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence

Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence talk about students’ different learning styles or thinking methodologies. He mentioned that teachers can better help their students when they are able to identify which of these eight intelligences are predominant in the students. Below is a brief description of Howard Gardener’s multiple intelligences. Logical-Mathematical

Student is quite capable in Mathematics and problem solving. Sequential thinking is his or her strength. Appealing activities are sorting or classifying, mathematics problems riddles and explorations.

Spatial

Student’s strong imagination is reflected in drawing, puzzles, and mazes. Appealing activities are sketching,

Representation of data

For learning representation of data students need to be connected with the real world. This topic requires Logical-Mathematical intelligence which includes five core areas such as:- Classification Comparison Basic numerical operations Inductive and deductive reasoning Hypothesis formation and testing.

Students are familiar with material like calculator, manipulative games, number lines and graphs. These description mentions above fits perfectly for the topic representation of data since the five core areas are very important as there is a systematic way of methods that are used to work question based on this topic.

The teaching strategies that are used to make learning more effective are inquiry methods. However, this topic has many connections from other parts. For example, we cannot explain the back to back stem and leaf plot before doing the simple stem and leaf plot. Hence connection with previous concepts is a necessity and varieties of representations are used in this topic. Forces and

Initially, the use of manipulative in the enactive stage is a great way to “hook” students, who may not be particular interested in the topic.

Bruner’s theory can be applied in both topics that are in representation of data and forces of equilibrium. Students come across abstract concept in these topic, therefore different teaching aids must be use to overcome this problem. Forces and equilibrium

Bruner’s three modes of representation are enactive, iconic and symbolic medium. The enactive representation focused on the motor responses where students perform various tasks to learn new ideas. Learning involves hand-on or direct manipulation of materials in an experiment. As applied in the topic forces and equilibrium, the teacher can focused more on the different activities such as model making. Students will learn by doing using a deeper understanding about a specific concept in mechanics. This will motivate the students and will show interest in learning the topic. This topic consist many concept and some students might be doing physics. Therefore it is important to cater for all the students using different manipulative