
Five Things I Learned as an Educator
1. Intelligence is not limited to reading, writing, and mathematics. Dr. Howard Gardner developed the Multiple Intelligence Theory in 1983, suggesting that the traditional notion of intelligence is far too limited. Dr. Gardner proposes eight different intelligences to account for potential in students and adults—linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. We must embrace and incorporate the multiple int