Finding our Multiple Intelligences

     Have you ever thought about why your students react in different ways to the activities you do in the class? Or even why different groups react differently to the same activity?

     According to Gardner there are eight different types of intelligences. Everyone has all of them, but they are pronounced in a different way. Through questionnaires people can test their strengths ones.

     Here there is an online test if you are interested in finding out your multiple intelligences:

http://literacynet.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html

     This resource is really useful for teachers. Once they and their students know which their strengths are, teachers could adapt different activities depend on these ones.  

Learner type	Is good at	Learns best by	Activities
Linguistic	Reading, writing and stories	Saying, hearing and seeing words	Memory games Trivia quizzes Stories.
Logical/ mathematical	Solving puzzles, exploring patterns, reasoning and logic	Asking questions, categorizing and working with patterns	Puzzles Problem solving.
Visual/ Spatial	Drawing, building, arts and crafts	Visualizing, using the mind's eye	Flashcards Colors Pictures Drawing Project work.
Musical	Singing, listening to music and playing instruments	Using rhythm, with music on	Using songs Chants Drilling.
Bodily/ Kinaesthetic	Moving around, touching things and body language	Moving, touching and doing	TPR activities Action songs Running dictations Miming Realia.
Interpersonal	Mixing with others, leading groups, understanding others and mediating	Co-operating, working in groups and sharing	Mingle activities Group work Debates Discussions.
Intrapersonal	Working alone and pursuing own interests	Working alone	Working individually on personalised projects
Naturalistic	Nature	Working outside and observing nature	Environmental projects.

     To sum up, we should know our students and thanks to this questionnaire we can approach to them and give them some resources so they are engaged with English. In addition, it is also useful for other areas in their life, because they could know their main strengths and work harder in their weakness ones.

Miriam Orón.