Which type are you?

Vilma S. Mendoza

There is no such thing as “one size fits all”. We all know that everyone is unique, even twins do have their differences.

Inside the classroom, more or less there are 40 students and all of them have different characteristics, styles, talents, learning abilities and more. We are very fortunate nowadays because most of us are well informed that being intelligent cannot just be measured by our academic achievements unlike before.

Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences that explains how human learns differently from one another. It describes that there are nine types of intelligence which are the naturalist, musical, logical-mathematical, existential, interpersonal, bodily-kinesthetic, linguistic, intra-personal, and spatial.

The said theory is very familiar to us teachers because we meet more or less 200 students a day and we can pretty tell how one is different from another. This is also the same reason why we spend most of our time thinking of different strategies and techniques to get the interests and needs of our learners. One may be good at speaking, one may be good at numbers, one may be good at singing, one may be good at dancing and the like.

We have to be fully aware that not everyone is the same and that we must inculcate in our mind that are intelligent in our own ways, we just have to discover which type of intelligence we belong. Wink.

The author is Teacher

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III at Macabebe High School

all of us