Have you ever wondered why children rarely live up to adult expectations? Why do parents choose the best school for the kid, prepare him for a great future, but he suddenly prefers to save homeless animals as a lawyer? The whole reason is that we have not yet learned to take into account the type of children's intelligence in the development of our children, which we still divide students into humanities and techies, gifted and most ordinary.
The psychologist Howard Gardner has long established a “multiplicity of intelligence”, which destroys stereotypes about children's abilities and proves: each kid is unique and talented, just everyone’s talents are very different. He identified 8 types of intelligence. And if you want your baby to find his vocation, achieve success in life, you need to understand in time what kind of intelligence he dominates.
The content of the article:
1. Types of intelligence in children: their features
- logical and mathematical mind
- visual-spatial type of intelligence
- verbal or linguistic intelligence
- musical type of intelligence
- interpersonal or emotional intelligence
- bodily kinesthetic
- existential or spiritual type of intelligence
- natural intelligence
2. How to determine the type of intelligence in a child?
Types of intelligence in children: their features
Logical and mathematical mind
He has an interest in numbers, logical puzzles. A child with logical-mathematical intelligence likes to find cause-effect relationships in everything, count, remember any information related to numbers (dates, car numbers, phone numbers). Logicians make excellent financiers, programmers, accountants or physicists.
How to teach such a child? Look for the application of his talent in practice - in solving problems of logic, in ordering things and responsibilities, in planning expenses for purchases, etc.
Visual spatial type of intelligence
Your kid belongs to this group, if he likes to mess with the designer, wants to know how things are arranged inside, likes to dress beautifully, remembers the walking route well and focuses on the terrain. A call for him can be design, medicine, architecture, science or art.
How to learn visuals:
- foster a love of drawing;
- Spur on to invent new fantastic heroes, unusual cars, stories;
- provide freedom in the choice of clothes;
- buy puzzles, complex constructors.
Verbal or linguistic intelligence
Your child from an early age began to speak a lot, reason, express his thoughts intelligently and competently over the years, likes to read, quickly remembers new words (including foreign ones)? This is a future linguist. If a child develops linguistic intelligence, he can become a writer, journalist, politician, editor, translator.
How to develop a verbal mind:
- communicate and constantly introduce new people into the circle of communication;
- read and discuss together, read, analyze the characters, feelings, actions of heroes, share opinions;
- write dictations;
- discuss on different topics.
Musical type of intelligence
Does the child subtly feel the rhythm, immediately remember and can play the melody, sing, can not live without music? He definitely has a musical mind. If you develop a baby in this direction, in the future he will be well versed in musical styles, recognize by the melody of its author or artist, and can become an excellent musician, composer, DJ, radio presenter, music critic, sound engineer or conductor.
How to help your child develop:
- Be sure to give a musical education (music school, vocals, home tutoring);
- initiate home concerts;
- motivate to create a musical group, performances in public.
Interpersonal or emotional intelligence
A child with interpersonal intelligence is the main instigator in the sandbox, always surrounded by friends. Neither children nor adults can resist his charm. He feels people, their mood, desires, needs, knows how to like, can defend his opinion in any situation and even impose it on others. Such a child easily makes acquaintances. He moves beautifully, gestures gracefully, has lively facial expressions.
Good educators and politicians, managers and diplomats, presenters and bosses grow out of children with an emotional type of intelligence.
So that the baby can realize his gift, you need:
- motivate him to participate in various school and extracurricular activities;
- develop a love of reading;
- develop analytical skills, engage in discussions, discussions.
Body-kinesthetic
They say about such a child that a motor is attached to him. Fidget child, noisy, active, never sitting still. His energy extends to any activity, so kinesthetics love to craft, sculpt, do-it-yourself from improvised materials. Unfortunately, the body-kinesthetic mind is often underestimated, it is believed that children with this type of intelligence are poorly trained. But this is not so. From kinesthetics grow not only athletes, artists, dancers, but also excellent engineers, mechanics, surgeons, party organizers, artisans.
The task of adults is to help the child:
- be sure to occupy it in the sports (dance) section;
- develop social skills, encourage public speaking, participation in conversation contests;
- develop motor skills, offer different types of applied creativity.
Existential or spiritual type of intelligence
It has the following features: consciousness, slow speech, slow movements, a deep understanding of the feelings of other people, shyness, but at the same time emotionality, thoughtfulness and serious age serious thoughts. With such a set of qualities, the child will find a vocation in psychology and psychiatry, philosophy and pedagogy, religion and politics.
How to develop a spiritual child:
- give voice and listen carefully;
- develop emotional intelligence;
- teach planning and forecasting the results of decisions;
- develop communication skills.
Natural intelligence
There are children who more than anything love nature, animals. They notice the most insignificant details in the behavior of insects, constantly bring home the hungry and wounded animals, do not tire of observing natural phenomena. This is also a great talent, which will find its expression in the profession of a geologist, veterinarian, farmer, ecologist, forester, biologist, astronomer.
How to help your baby discover his gift:
- entrust the care of a pet;
- more often organize outdoor trips, real hiking trips;
- give the child literature and tools that will help him explore, learn more about the world around him (microscope, telescope);
- attach to the cultivation of vegetables in the garden.
How to determine the type of intelligence in a child?
The only way to discover children's talents is to take care of a harmonious, comprehensive development of the mind. This means that from an early age it is necessary:
- to develop memory, imagination, spatial, logical, figurative, systemic, critical thinking;
- accustom to intellectual work;
- to develop curiosity;
- motivate.
Is there a developmental technique that is universal for all types of children's intelligence? Yes, this is advanced mental arithmetic. The program was developed taking into account the characteristics of the mental development of preschoolers and elementary school students (5-11 years old). It is suitable for shy and hyperactive students, for logicians and visuals, for kinesthetics and small naturalists.The method of mental arithmetic combines an effective course of development of mental abilities, cognitive interest and skills in working with information, personal volitional qualities. All these are conditions under which a child can reveal and realize different facets of his intellect.
