The Importance Of Multiple Intelligences

“Educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses,” Psychologist, Howard Gardner once wrote in his book, Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (Howard Gardner). By educators across the world accepting that their students have both strengths and weaknesses, education reform to meet those needs can be established and sought out. Every student is unique in who they are, what they want to accomplish, and how they learn. All students deserve to have their intelligences respected and taught to for the students to succeed. In 1983, Howard Gardner introduced his Eight Multiple Intelligences that showed the world that people had more than just the traditional intelligence. …show more content…
Teachers sometimes lose track of how their students need to be taught and the difference of how the teacher learns best. I had several teachers that I remember that could not adapt to the needs of their students’ diverse learning styles. A teacher I remember clearly was my Biology teacher in high school who could learn perfectly well with a lecture from the teacher, therefore, did only that for when she taught. Most of my Biology class struggled with the concepts in Biology, yet she chose to continuing teaching in the one way that she learned best. Being a student with a teacher that will not change their teaching styles to adapt to their students can cause frustration on the students’ end. Even with teachers that cannot adapt their ways for their students’ learning, many teachers are flexible in their teaching, accommodating for their students’ needs for success by changing their teaching style to help the students. Teachers should be “using their knowledge of learning style to adapt lesson for the styles of their students” (Saphier and Speca 347). By adapting their lessons, they enable students to succeed in the best way they know how. I had several teachers that tried a diverse set of teaching styles to make sure that every student was able to comprehend and understand each concept thoroughly. My high school Psychology teacher had interactive activities, PowerPoints, movies, class discussions, projects, group work, and lectures in attempts to allow all students to grasp the material in Psychology. Another teacher that incorporated similar methods in trying to have the most understanding among his students was my English teacher in my senior year. He related the literature and topics to our present day as well as had us go outside whenever we could. Both of those teachers adapted their teaching methods to try to help their