Theory library
Child Development
Howard Gardner
Multiple Intelligences
Focus
Children are smart in different ways — a classroom should offer more than one door into every idea.
Key concepts
- Eight ways of knowing (linguistic, spatial, musical, bodily…)
- Strengths-based planning
- Many entry points to one concept
In the classroom
The same counting idea shows up as a song, a block-building challenge, and a movement game — and three different children light up.
See it in practice
Every Edfable simulation connected to this theory — and why it applies.