ability
to self-reflect and be aware of one's inner state of being.
These learners try to understand
their inner feelings, dreams, relationships with others, and strengths and
weaknesses. It is self-knowledge and the ability to act adaptively on the
basis of that knowledge.
Their skills include:
- Recognizing their own strengths
and weaknesses
- reflecting and analyzing themselves
- awareness of their inner feelings,
desires and dreams
- evaluating their thinking patterns
- reasoning with themselves
- understanding their role in
relationship to others
Possible career paths:
- Researchers
- theorists
- philosophers
Teaching Strategies to Foster
Intrapersonal Intelligence
- Activities that foster self-esteem
- Give students choices
- Goal setting
- Describing how the student feels
about something
- Use self directed/independent
learning opportunities.
- Provide frequent feedback
- Daily Journals
- Self assessment
- Promote personal and social
values and skills
- Using analogies
- Focusing/Concentration Skills
- Thinking strategies
- Higher order reasoning
To document Intrapersonal Intelligence:
- Journal entries
- Self-assessment essays, checklists,
drawings, activities
- Samples of other self-reflection
exercises
- Questionnaires
- Transcribed interviews on goals
and plans
- Interest inventories
- Samples of outside hobbies or
activities
- Student-kept progress charts
- Notes of self-reflection on
own work
