Back when I was doing my degree I studied Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences, and I instantly felt it made perfect sense when I thought of the people I knew, all talented in different ways!
For some reason it slipped my mind over the past 10 years and I never thought of considering it in relation to my own children.
It popped back into my head the other day and I searched around and found this online test you can apply to your children to get a broad idea of where their talents lie and which learning styles would suit them.
Here are the results for my two, as I suspected their results look very different from each other!
Papaya's results....
Linguistic - 2
Logical - 1
Spatial - 9
Bodily - 8
Musical - 2
Interpersonal - 4
Intrapersonal - 2
Naturalistic - 5
I wasn't surprised at the high scores for Spatial and Bodily for my artistic, observant, physical girl.... I was surprised at how high the score was for Naturalistic though and it's made me resolve to get them to the woods even more.
Povey's results.....
Linguistic - 7
Logical - 4
Spatial - 3
Bodily - 2
Musical - 5
Interpersonal - 6
Intrapersonal - 1
Naturalistic - 1
Again I wasn't surprised at high scores for Linguistic and Interpersonal for my chatty, social boy... in his case though I was surprised at how high his musical score was.... but again maybe I shouldn't have been as he is always singing away to himself :)
Interesting to know, and useful information to store away for future reference.
For some reason it slipped my mind over the past 10 years and I never thought of considering it in relation to my own children.
It popped back into my head the other day and I searched around and found this online test you can apply to your children to get a broad idea of where their talents lie and which learning styles would suit them.
Here are the results for my two, as I suspected their results look very different from each other!
Papaya's results....
Linguistic - 2
Logical - 1
Spatial - 9
Bodily - 8
Musical - 2
Interpersonal - 4
Intrapersonal - 2
Naturalistic - 5
I wasn't surprised at the high scores for Spatial and Bodily for my artistic, observant, physical girl.... I was surprised at how high the score was for Naturalistic though and it's made me resolve to get them to the woods even more.
Povey's results.....
Linguistic - 7
Logical - 4
Spatial - 3
Bodily - 2
Musical - 5
Interpersonal - 6
Intrapersonal - 1
Naturalistic - 1
Again I wasn't surprised at high scores for Linguistic and Interpersonal for my chatty, social boy... in his case though I was surprised at how high his musical score was.... but again maybe I shouldn't have been as he is always singing away to himself :)
Interesting to know, and useful information to store away for future reference.
