Incorporating Howard Gardner's Theory In The Classroom

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Incorporating Howard Gardner’s theory in the classroom is to create a learning environment where each student has the possibility to develop skills and solve the problem in an appropriate manner. Howard Gardner claims all human beings have Multi Intelligences. These Multi Intelligences can be nurtured and strengthened or ignored and weakened. In that sense, Ms. Lee needs to set up the classroom in a manner that all materials are available to extend student learning through a variety of activities within a specific intelligence. For example, In the Linguistic center, Ms. Lee can have some books and dictionaries, pictures files, and word games. In the Logical-Mathematical center where she has science experiments, she can have activities related

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