Presenting! Filipino Writer Frank A Hilario’s August 2025 New “Theory Of Individuals’ Multiple Intelligences” (iMI), Thereby Magnifying American Psychology Professor Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (MI)
The above image is
from my college friend Nestor Pestelos
and whom First Lady Imelda Marcos
got to her in many projects in those Martial Law years.
From the box: “Teach
them to think, feel, build, and act.” Applying Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Intelligences.
That’s a list of 4 separate talents in 4 separate individuals –
in my different list.
Or 1 single individual with 4 separate talents.
Natural multi-talents
are not unknown in any culture.
Now
then, to multiply the power of the MI theory of Gardner and produce in fact
multi-talents in each individual student following my iMI theory:
Teacher:
See to it that you have talent-generating exercises in class in:
discussions,
mathematics,
English,
history,
logic,
creativity,
physical development,
etc
Not necessarily in
that order, just that your class do those all at any one time or at least
within a week, any week, or any number of weeks. You can go back to a topic any
time.
Doesn’t iMI make
any kind of studying exciting!!!
Intelligences,
plural! “Walang inggitan” (No jealousies) – what someone is good at, let it be.
Go find what you are good at, with or without somebody else, and sharpen it!
“Multiple
involvements will reveal your own multiple intelligences, plural.”
That is all to say
that in Modern Teaching, what teachers should be involved in more is what
thinking methods to teach, Not what to memorize.
“Don’t ask
students to memorize facts they can google. Teach them to think, feel, build,
and act.”
If I were in
class, this is how I would teach my students how to THiNK:
True?
Helpful?
Inspiring?
Necessary?
Kind?
THINK!
All the time, I teach THINKing!
Gardner’s MI
individualizes thinking and learning – Hilario’s iMI is decidedly social or
done with others, to benefit all participants at the same time! It should
always be THiNK! MI.
We should in class
or in any group cultivate multiple intelligences – and get that group with such
a collection of MI working for the public good, not only for those members of
the group!
What is intelligence?
What is MI? Mr Gardner defines intelligence as a “biopsychological potential to
process information that can be activated in a cultural setting to solve
problems or create products that are of value in a culture” (Michele Marinus, 26 March 2025, “Gardner’s
Theory of Multiple Intelligences,” Simply Psychology).
To
multiply the value of Multiple Intelligences, we must not
simply assign an intelligence to a single individual but a multiple of
intelligences to an individual, and to a group of any number of individuals!
Intelligences are
for working with, not counting!
“Multiple
Intelligences” or “Individual Multiple Intelligences”? You choose!@517
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