Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 2

The developing of different intelligences is determined by 3 factors:

• Biological endowment: including hereditary or genetic factors and insults or injuries to the brain before, during, and after birth.
• Personal life history- including experiences with the parents, teachers, peers, friends, and others who awaken intelligences, keep them from developing, or actively repress them.
• Cultural and historical background- including the time and place in which you were born and raised and the nature and state of cultural or historical developments in different domains.

There are also different experiences that either “paralyze” our intelligence or crystialize them.  They are sought to be the turning point or the light bulb in which a child either develops that intelligence more or in the sad circumstances diminishes the will to learn more about the intelligence. In conjuction with those they are different factors that will help facilitate these actions. They include:

• Access to resources or mentors
• Historical-cultural factors
• Geographic factors
• Familial Factors
• Situational factors

This chapter makes you open your mind and makes you realize all of the different people that are in this world today.  These different intelligences need to be apparent in your daily curriculum so that you as a teacher are crystallizing these intelligences instead of paralyzing them.  The importance of teaching is getting the best out of everyone; yes it is important to build their knowledge in many different forms of intelligences but we need to understand that each child has their own way of learning material and also their own way of expressing that same material.