Best Practices by Multiple intelligence and Learning Styles

The main focus of this competence unit is on the Theory of multiple intelligences (MI) and the Theory of learning styles (LS) and their practical integration in curriculum development and assessment, as well as the classroom itself. It considers all implications of the two theories in the educational and learning process.

Gardner’s theory of MI was originally intended for the field of psychology but has received a great deal of attention in the field of education. He believed that the conventional concept of intelligence was too narrow and restrictive and that measures of IQ often miss out on other "intelligences" that an individual may possess.

Understanding and applying specific types of multiple intelligences in the learning process is beneficial for the learners. However, learning styles are just as important. The term “learning style” speaks to the understanding that every student learns differently. Technically, an individual’s learning style refers to the preferential way in which the learner absorbs, processes, comprehends and retains information.

Though the concept of learning styles is relatively young, having gained ground in the 1970s, it has become an important process in the modern education, especially on matters concerning how teachers use it in the curriculum and how it is used in the development of the curriculum.

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