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Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence’s theory is a longstanding high-interest topic in education. The initial interest for educators is the notion that everyone learns differently. The immediate challenge is trying to accommodate nine different paths to learning in endless combinations. In order for the theory to be useful to educators, it needs to be looked at more holistically. When you look at the nine intelligences, what common traits do you see? What are the similarities among their unique traits? How can we make sense of nine different paths to learning? These intelligences do not act in isolation…they are fluid, overlapping and changing on the fly all the time. Want to refresh yourself on the characteristics of each intelligence? Read through my free detailed intelligence profiles online.I developed the Wheel of MI Domains to clarify the relationship of the intelligences in a practical way. On the wheel, the intelligences are grouped into three regions: the interactive, analytic, and
