The relationship between multiple intelligences and teaching style

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present a piece of research devoted to the relationship between teachers’ teaching style and their multiple intelligences profile. The theory of Multiple Intelligences, as it was presented by Howard Gardner, tries to prove that human beings are characterized by several types of intelligences, with a few of them clearly dominating. In this way, earlier theories describing the construct in question appear to be invalid, at least to some extent. The IQ tests, which measure only a few separate abilities, cannot represent the whole construct of intelligence. The teaching styles chosen for the study were established on the basis of earlier descriptions by different authors. For the purpose of this research three teaching styles were compiled: the counseling style, the authoritarian style and the affective style. By means of observations, a questionnaire and Multiple Intelligences Inventory, the existing relationship was revealed to show that all teachers were characterized by linguistic intelligence and other personal intelligences varied depending on their teaching style.