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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.