Study Skills for Higher Education: Howard Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Teaching Methods for Effective Learning

Study skills for higher
education

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
1. Discuss different intelligences of Gardener's Theory.............................................................1
2. Teaching methods that teachers can use to help students learn...............................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are an enhanced approach to learnings which provides students measures to
organise their process, take new information and effectively deal with their projects. It is an
ability to conduct an operation with specified outcomes by effectively execute the given time or
energy (Afthinos, Kiaffas and Afthinos, 2022). Study skills provides students tips to study better
and focus on improving their habits of learning, reading and writing
This report covers the Howard Gardener's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and various
teaching methods that can be use by teachers to aid students to learn better.
MAIN BODY
1. Discuss different intelligences of Gardener's Theory
Howard Gardener presented the theory of Multiple intelligences 1983. Howard
Gardener's theory of multiple intelligences highlights that all people rational mind is different
and they have not born with all intelligence. This theory states that traditional opinions of
intelligence was restricted to certain limitations and that it can described in various forms. He
suggested that learning can happen via various types of intelligences and different people have
different level of learnings. His vision about intelligence is that it is a person's capability to make
solutions to their life's issues and their ability to adopt new knowledges to effectively understand
something. Gardener believed that all human have unique and differentiated eight intelligences
and every person possess those intelligences differently (Chen, Jiang and Wu, 2021). Each of
these intelligences is made up of specific combinations and are differently place in each
personnel's mind. He claims that education and study skills have been improved by focusing on
various intelligences of students. Multiple intelligences of persons can either be nurtured,
strengthened or ignored. Teachers use these theory to comprehensively understand each student
diverse mindsets and rational thinking capacity. Better understanding of all the intelligences by
teachers have assists them to tackle diverse students effectively. These are divided into various
sub parts which represents several kinds of intelligences which indicates place where people can
utilise their intelligences more efficiently. Multiple intelligences of Howard Gardener's Theory
are described as under:
Linguistic Intelligences- This theory is concerned with sensitivity in speaking and
writing different languages. It deals with an individual's ability to learn languages and their
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