
Multiple Intelligence

Some teachers assume that there are two kinds of students in the class. There some intelligence and stupid students. Intelligence student is the one who always be able to do the exercise with less wrong. Meanwhile the stupid student is in vice versa. And sometimes there are some teacher blaming that kind of student. Actually that attitude is not appropriate to be done by the teacher.
According to Howard Gardner Theory, intelligence is not just being smart. Howard Gardner divided intelligence to seven kinds. So it is wrong when the teacher blame some students that they are stupid. Beneath it all, God has a created human as ultimate being with intelligence. So actually there are no stupid people in this world. But every people have different kinds of intelligences. Those intelligences consist of logical mathematic, linguistic, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, musical, naturalistic.
Some problem in learning that is happened on students such as sleep in the class, difficult to understand the course can be caused by teaching method. Every student has different intelligence. Some students having intrapersonal prefer individual learning rather than group interaction model. So that’s why teacher should know more about multiple intelligences theory.
Perceiving that case above, I hope I can teach student based on their multiple Intelligences. And I want to apply character based learning. So I will divide the student based on their own characters. And I think they will more enjoy the learning because they learn what they really like.