Howard Gardner & Multiple Intelligences - Predisposing the Child To Learning

In the last episode, I spelled out the idea of the Zone of Proximal Development and how each child has his or her own Zone and this will vary from subject to subject, skill to skill. That there is this variance is attributed today to the idea of Multiple Intelligences, that every child has his or her own unique combination of abilities based on broad intelligence areas that determine the actual zone of proximal development. A child who is gifted verbalizing has fewer challenges when asked to prepare a speech for instance or report to the class on research conducted, compared to someone without that highly developed intelligence.