Multiple Intelligence

The Multiple Intelligence(MI) Approach allows students to explore their own strengths or intelligence, whether artistic, mathematical or linguistic. The basis of the Multiple Intelligence approach is the belief that different children learn in different ways.

Created by Howard Gardner, the theory states that there are seven different intelligences: Verbal/Spatial, Bodily/Kinesthetic, Musical/Rhythmic, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal.

Every student has a different profile of strengths and weaknesses across these intelligences. Teachers utilising the MI approach accommodate the different learning styles of each individual student in the curriculum. The MI approach is most likely to be used in preschools with lower student-teacher ratios, as the method of teaching heavily depends on the skills and focused attention of the teacher for each of the students.