It´s highly recomended to guide the students to knowledge through their own learning path, and for doing it, we as techer need to know which are the predominant intelligences and also knowing how to use them in your English class.
- First thing Applying an intelligence test.
- Give each student a copy of the "I like..." grid.
- Ask the students to circle the kinds of activities they like doing.
- Identify the predominant type of intelligence by the number of pictures circled in each column of the grid.
- Each column corresponds to one type of intelligence.
- Linguistic
- Logical-Mathematical
- Spatial
- Musical
- Bodily-kinesthetic
- Intrapersonal
- Interpersonal
Linguistic: Children with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling stories and doing crossword puzzles. They are motivated by books, records, dramas, and oportunities for writing. They like spelling out words and theatre plays.
Logical-Mathematical: Children with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns, categories and relationships. They are attracted by arithmetic problems, strategy games and experiments. They enjoy exploring how things are related and how they work. Order and sequence are significant for them so they are good at puzzles and manipulative games, sorting and categorizing words, unscrambling sentences and mindmaping stories.
Spacial: These children think in images and pictures. They may be fascinated with mazes or jigsaw puzzles or spend free time drawing, building with blocks or day dreaming. They rememberthings visually including sizes and shapes of objects. They like preparing posters, charts and graphics and are able to invent or decipher codes.
Musical: Musical children are always singing or dumming to themselves. They are usually aware of sounds that other people may miss. They like rhythm and sound of language, songs, poems and jingles.
Bodily-Kinesthetic: These kids process knowledge through bodily sensations. They are often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing and wood working. They have good motor skills and are always taking things apart and putting them back together. They like performing and need to move while they are working. They prefer to carry out class projects by making models rather than writing reports.
Interpersonal: These people may be shy. They like to think things over; they learn better by trial and error and prefer independent projects. They are self-disciplined and usually have a high self-steem. They work well in self-access centres. Although it is difficult to assess who has this capacity, the teacher can look for evidence in the students' use of their other capacities: how well they take advantage of their strengths, how aware they are of their weaknesses and how thoughtfull about their decisions and choices.
Interpersonal: These children are usually leaders among their peers, good at communicating and able to recognize other people´s feelings, moods and interventions. They like to talk and have good social skils. They work well in small groups as they can be in close contact with the other members. They are the ones who tactfully convince the teacher of the need of extra time to complete an assignament.
