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Using Howard Gardner's typology of Multiple Intelligences answer the following questions.

As you reflect upon how you use multiple intelligence, complete the following items and provide examples to support your answers:

Decide if the type of intelligence required right-brain thinking or left-brain thinking

Identify a type of intelligence you want to improve and then develop an action plan for improving that intelligence.

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Summarized

Verbal-linguistic intelligence (well-developed verbal skills and sensitivity to the sounds, meanings and rhythms of words)

Logical-mathematical intelligence (ability to think conceptually and abstractly, and capacity to discern logical and numerical patterns)

Spatial-visual intelligence (capacity to think in images and pictures, to visualize accurately and abstractly)

Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence (ability to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully)

Musical intelligences (ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch and timber)

Interpersonal intelligence (capacity to detect and respond appropriately to the moods, motivations and desires of others)

Intrapersonal (capacity to be self-aware and in tune with inner feelings, values, beliefs and thinking processes)

Naturalist intelligence (ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature)

Existential intelligence (sensitivity and capacity to tackle deep questions about human existence such as, "What is the meaning of life? Why do we die? How did we get here?"