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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
Bodily-
Kinesthetic
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ability to
control body movements to express ideas and feelings |
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ability to
handle objects skillfully |
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ability to
learn by interaction participation, and movement |
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 | hands-on
learning, role playing, drama, movement, things to build, sports and
physical games, tactile experiences, dance, exercise |
 | manipulatives,
typing, computer mouse activities |
 | act, play
charades, use sign language,
dance out the meaning of a word or idea,
clap out the syllables of new
words |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
| Existential
 (proposed) |
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sensitivity
to asking profound questions about life |
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the human
response to being alive and to seeing one's place in the
"big picture" |
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emphasis on
classical values of truth, beauty, goodness |
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can place
self within time and space (cosmos) such as total immersion in a
work of art or project or profound love for another human |
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time for
"Deep Questions |
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time for
total immersion in a project or reading an engaging book |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
| Interpersonal
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ability to
focus outward to others |
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ability to
communicate, cooperate, and collaborate with others |
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ability to
form relationships |
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ability to
sense others' moods, temperaments, intentions, and motivations |
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warm,
accepting classroom environment |
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collaborative
groups, pairs, triads |
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peer teaching |
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active
listening |
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empathy and
understanding |
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social
interaction |
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work with a
partner to say/spell words |
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form peer
coaching teams to help learn |
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play games in
small groups
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
| Intrapersonal
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ability to
look inward to examine one's feelings and thoughts, strengths,
weaknesses, desires, and goals |
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ability to
express one's inner self |
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ability to
control one's thoughts and emotions and work with them |
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a drive for
self-actualization |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
Logical-
Mathematical
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ability to
use numbers effectively |
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ability to
use inductive and deductive reasoning |
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ability to
discern logical or numerical abstract patterns |
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classifying,
categorizing, analyzing |
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outlining,
organizing, deciphering or creating codes, finding patterns and
relationships |
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buying,
selling, trading goods; playing games of strategy |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
| Musical
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sensitivity
to pitch (melody), rhythm, and timbre (tone) |
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appreciation
of music |
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ability to
express oneself through rhythm, music, or dance |
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listening to
music, creating and playing instruments, singing and dancing,
expressing feelings with music |
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play
background music while students work |
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field trips
to symphony, opera, musical |
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Music Ace
software |
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tap out
syllables |
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create a rap
incorporating vocabulary words |
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write a song
and sing it |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
| Naturalist
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understands,
appreciates, enjoys the natural world |
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observes,
understands, and organizes patterns in the natural environment |
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notices
subtleties in texture, sounds, appearances |
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observing,
classifying, grouping |
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conducting
science experiments |
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hands-on
labs, creating classroom habitats, caring for animals and plants |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
Verbal-
Linguistic
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sensitivity
to semantics - the meaning of words |
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sensitivity
to phonology - sounds, rhythms, inflections |
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sensitivity
to syntax - word order |
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sensitivity
to functions of language - convey information, stimulate, please,
excite, persuade |
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reading, speaking,
listening, writing |
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word games, rapping, debate,
storytelling, choral reading, silent reading |
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storyboards, tape recorders,
word processing, desktop publishing |
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Intelligence |
Key Traits |
Ways to Strengthen |
Visual-
Spatial
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ability to
think in pictures |
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ability to
perceive the visual-spatial world accurately |
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ability to
graphically represent visual or spatial ideas |
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ability to
orient the body in space |
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sensitivity
to color, line, form, shape, and space |
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 | visually-rich classroom environment
with pictures and color |
 | reading maps and charts, drawing
pictures and diagrams |
 | color-coded materials |
 | building models, jigsaw and maze
puzzles |
 | painting, coloring, mapping a sequence
of events, rooms, locales |
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