Developing Multiple Intelligences in Secondary Education Students Through Project-based Learning Method

Abstract

[eng] Traditional teaching in secondary education often ignores the importance of enhancing students’ particular learning styles in classroom situations. A change is necessary since one of the major purposes of teachers, among others, should be to find the best way to motivate their students as well as to find a way to grasp, explore and take advantage of students’ multiple intelligences in order to allow them to make the most of their strengths and potentials. Despite the difficulty of finding a suitable methodology to foster all students’ multiple intelligences in the classroom, the project-based learning method may be a helpful and appropriate way to motivate students and at the same time to encourage them to improve and develop their own intelligences. For this reason, the present paper aims to create and develop a didactic project following the project-based learning methodology based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory in order to help students develop their particular skills in an inspiring and motivational way.