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Recognition of students' multiple intelligences would make teacher-student interaction within the classroom more dynamic: learning would be more understandable and 'attractive' for students and the teacher would have effective communication to students and would accomplish of sharing learning with them. One of the ways in which a teacher could determine the intelligences of his/her students and develop activities that would promote the learning of the subject manner more easily for the whole class is for the teacher to create an intellectual profile of his/her students. Tools for intellectual profiling (covering all 8 domains/intelligences) were also developed by Gardner, and these tools could be used to determine the composition of intelligences in a classroom. After determining this, the...

Gardner recognizes that not all 8 intelligences could be incorporated in all classroom lesson plans and activities, but developing strategies combining these intelligences would be more effective than using one kind of teaching strategy addressing only one kind of intelligence (Checkley, 1997:4).
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Checkley, K. (1997). "The first seven… and eighth: a conversation with Howard Gardner." Educational Leadership, Vol. 55, No. 1.

Visser, B. (2006). "Beyond g: putting multiple intelligences…

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Checkley, K. (1997). "The first seven… and eighth: a conversation with Howard Gardner." Educational Leadership, Vol. 55, No. 1.

Visser, B. (2006). "Beyond g: putting multiple intelligences theory to the test." Intelligence, Vol. 34.
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