In our English class, we tend to do split groups on Tuesdays/Thursdays and Fridays each week. On the second term, during our Friday split group, we stayed together and Núria, our English teacher, explained us what multiple intelligences were. This theory was proposed by Howard Gardner, a teacher in Harvard University, and he said that there are different types of intelligences. With that, he opposed the fact of labeling learners to a specific intelligence. In that way, he found eight different type of intelligences:
- Musical – rhythmic
- Visual – spatial
- Verbal – linguistic
- Logical – mathematical
- Bodily – kinesthetic
- Intrapersonal
- Interpersonal
- Naturalistic
After knowing what the different intelligences were, all the students took a test to see which our ones were. Generally speaking, we did a quiz to know which was our strongest intelligence and once we had just finished the quiz we joined into groups of four people in order to cover each other’s intelligences. Finally, we did a project working in two different intelligences and we showed it to our classmates when we had finished.
More in depth, we had to make groups with people who had different intelligences from us and we had to work on a project during two weeks. The third week, we had to do an oral exposition in front of the class so as to explain which intelligences we had, which type of project we did and how we felt about it.
In our case, we made a group of four (two boys and two girls) with very different intelligences. Our intelligences were: interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic and verbal. When we had to choose which type of project to do, we decided on making DIY’s (Do It Yourself). In that way, we promoted the naturalistic intelligence by recycling and reusing some objects we had at home, the verbal intelligence by communicating, as well as the interpersonal, and the intrapersonal intelligence by doing things on our own. Each member of the group did a DIY on its own, and then we put it all together by recording a video where we explained the DIY step by step.
The DIY made were a snowball decoration, a can to put candles in it, a jeweler and a salt decoration. We all arrived to the conclusion that it was quite a good experience as we did things we are not used to do and that finding out which our intelligence was, was very interesting as well. We had never thought before about our abilities and how to improve them.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L-BhQsDWycngY9L4D5iql98Ev-9z_n08/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5XZmVDW7uYthmULfTl60MpCtdJTLmIF/view
Ferran Giné and Ànnia Segarra
