Many of our students in the regular classroom set-up are a mixture of different personalities, and yes, different intelligences. Here’s a quick checklist to spot your learner’s intelligence/s. Teacher can do it through observation if her pupils are in the Kindergarten and Primary Levels; secondary school students can do this themselves.
Instruction: Rank each statement 0, 1, or 2. Write 0 if you disagree with the statement and write 2 if you strongly agree. Write 1 if you are somewhere in between. Then calculate your score for each intelligence type.
Interpersonal Intelligence
a. ___ I’m often the leader in activities
b. ___ I enjoy talking to my friends
c. ___ I often help my friends
d. ___ My friends often talk to me about their problems
e. ___ I’ve got a lot of friends
f. ___ I’m a member of several clubs
___ TOTAL FOR INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
Intrapersonal Intelligence
a. ___ I go to the cinema alone
b. ___ I go to the library alone to study
c. ___ I can tell you some things I’m good at doing
d. ___ I like to spend time alone
e. ___ My friends find some of my actions strange sometimes
f. ___ I learn from my mistakes
___ TOTAL FOR INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
Logical – Mathematical Intelligence
___ I often do calculations in my head
a. ___ I like to put things into categories
b. ___ I’m good at chess and/or draughts
c. ___ I like to play number games
d. ___ I love to play around with Computers
e. ___ I ask lots of questions about how things work
___ TOTAL FOR LOGICO-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE
Linguistic Intelligence
a. ___ I like to read books, magazines and newspapers
b. ___ I consider myself a good reader
c. ___ I like to tell jokes and Stories
d. ___ I can remember people’s names easily
e. ___ I like to recite tongue twisters
f. ___ I have a good vocabulary in my native language
___ TOTAL FOR LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE
Bodily – Kinaesthetic Intelligence
a. ___ It’s hard for me to sit quietly for a long time
b. ___ It’s easy for me to copy exactly what other people do
c. ___ I’m good at sewing, woodwork, building or mechanics
d. ___ I’m good at Sports
e. ___ I enjoy working with my hands – working with clay or model making, for example
f. ___ I enjoy physical exercise
___ TOTAL FOR BODILY-KINAESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
Spatial Intelligence
a. ___ I can read maps easily
b. ___ I enjoy art activities
c. ___ I can draw well
d. ___ Videos and slides really help me to learn new Information
e. ___ I love books with pictures
f. ___ I enjoy putting puzzles together
___ TOTAL FOR SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
Musical Intelligence
a. ___ I can hum the tunes to lots of songs
b. ___ I’m a good singer
c. ___ I play a musical instrument or sing in a choir
d. ___ I can tell when music sounds off-key
e. ___ I often tap rhythmically on the table or desk
f. ___ I often sing songs
___ TOTAL FOR MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
Naturalist Intelligence
a. ___ I spend a lot of time outdoors
b. ___ I enjoy listening to the sounds created in the natural world birdsong, for example
c. ___ I can identify plant life and animal species
d. ___ I can distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous snakes and/or between poisonous and edible mushrooms
e. ___ I enjoy observing plants and/or collecting rocks
f. ___ I’ve got green fingers – I keep pot plants at home and have an interest in gardening, for example
___ TOTAL FOR NATURALIST INTELLIGENCE
How to Classify the Learners According to their Intelligences: Simply get the highest score in the different areas or category in the checklist, whichever intelligence that the pupil/student scored the highest will be his Intelligence.Some leraners may demonstrate more than one intelligence.