Survey

Your
Intelligences

By Ellen Weber (PhD)

Enjoy Personal
Talents as
Learning Tools!

©Ellen Weber (PhD) 2017- Mita International Brain Center

 SURVEY TO DISCOVER YOUR MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES

Discover in this survey - more about your many

unique intelligences. Enjoy your hidden and
unused capabilities to solve problems in
innovative ways.

Complete the survey below to start...

Here’s how it works.

Check off at least 15 statements (only) which

best capture your interests and abilities.

If you have to stop and think about any response

– simply pass that item by without checking it.

Then, compare your checked items to those

explanations listed in the Mita key on page 5.

Discover new clues about your strongest

intelligences, and spot one or two weak areas
you can also develop.

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 SURVEY TO DISCOVER YOUR MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES

Enjoy this journey into your amazing brain!

1. It's often hard for me to sit still. I prefer active.

2. I often organize a time schedule to plan my week.
3. I enjoy taking great photographs.
4. Designing a web page would be a fun challenge.
5. I enjoy throwing and catching ball games.
6. I would love to design clothes or interior decorate.
7. Preparing to debate an issue is a challenge I enjoy.
8. Sometimes I find myself tapping out rhythms.
9. Telling stories to others is great fun for me.
10. Sketching a building is easier then baking a cake.
11. In teams, I enjoy summarizing people’s thoughts.
12. Multiple choice tests are usually easy for me.
13. I'd like to join a march to show concern for others.
14. I‘d really enjoy learning to play a guitar or piano.
15. One favorite activity is keeping a personal journal.
16. As I read a text, I tend to outline or organize ideas.
17. Finding metaphors in a poem is a joy for me.
18. I love the challenge of participating on teams.
19. When dining, I enjoy listening to background music.
20. I prefer walking alone at times to gather thoughts.

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 SURVEY TO DISCOVER YOUR MULTIPLE
INTELLIGENCES
Continued …

21. In a novel I compare personal choices I would make.

22. When following a map, I can usually find my way.
23. After a concert, I hear melodies in my mind for days.
24. If I caught a fish, I’d love to cook it on a campfire.
25. I’d enjoy singing in a choir, even in a busy week.
26. When I write I tend to draw on personal experiences.
27. I easily identify patterns and find larger meanings.
28. In all four seasons I learn from and enjoy nature.
29. My best thinking surfaces when I’m with other people.
30. Helping others complete a project is fun for me.
31. Finding solutions for numerical problems is fun.
32. I’d enjoy collaborating to write a joint press release.
33. Every chance I get, I play golf or tennis or softball.
34. I would leap to the challenge of acting in a play.
35. I like to learn more about myself in surveys.
36. Learning new dance steps brings me satisfaction.
37. As I walk in the woods I often pause to enjoy wildlife.
38. I am drawn to lakes, creeks, rivers or oceans.
39. __ I would enjoy writing an essay for a contest.
40. __ Sometimes I awake early just to watch the sunrise.

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 Responses for preferred activities from the
Mita survey are listed below. Determine your
strongest talents.

Verbal-Linguistic: 7, 9, 11, 17, 39

Logical-Mathematical: 2, 12, 16, 27, 31

Visual-Spatial: 3, 4, 6, 10, 22

Musical: 8, 14, 19, 23,

Bodily-Kinesthetic: 1, 5, 33, 34, 36

Interpersonal: 13, 18, 29, 30, 32

Intrapersonal: 15, 20, 21, 26, 35

Naturalistic: 24, 28, 37, 38, 40

Name one strength and show how you could use it in class

Name -
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As you use this Mita problem-solving survey to
engage more unique intelligences. Think of it as
an asset to learning, leading and retaining new
facts. Enjoy new opportunities to work with more
of your amazing brain.

The Mita-problem-solving-method relies on

personal capabilities to solve real life problems in
innovative ways. (See related products P. 10 ~
such as MI task cards for any class!)

Why not unleash hidden or unused intelligences in

your next class? Keep survey results to help you
succeed in achieving personal goals. Use your
responses to convert your newly discovered
talents into tools that help you solve real life
problems.

Typical strengths listed here are adapted from my

1999 book written for parents and teachers:

Student Assessment that Works: A Practical

Approach, pp. 17-19. The book, originally published
by Pearson’s, is at
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mita
-Strategies-in-the-Classroom-and-Beyond .

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 To Develop your full range of intelligences, and raise
your IQ, do any of the following as part of your next
assignment:

Verbal-Linguistic IQ: tell stories, write essays,

participate in interviews, converse easily with peers.

Visual-Spatial IQ: paint, draw, design web pages,

decorate rooms, make cards, create scrapbooks.

Logical-Mathematical IQ: solve problems, balance

checkbooks, make and keep schedules, budget their
money.

Musical IQ: attend concerts, play an instrument, hum

melodies, sing along with others, enjoy rhythm and
rhyme.

Intrapersonal IQ: keep a personal journal, enjoy

reading alone, study to answer personal questions
about life.

Bodily-Kinesthetic IQ: engage in sports, enjoy moving

body to music, enjoy walking tours, use body
language.

Interpersonal IQ: join a discussion group, engage in

family and community projects, enjoy debates, join
chat rooms on the web.

Naturalistic IQ: collect wildflower specimens, enjoy

hunting expeditions, follow an animal's footprints,
photograph landscapes, visit the zoo.

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Display cool posters as MI reminders. See

https://goo.gl/fRChcD

The IQ poster collection above allows you to display practical

examples of each intelligence, while you question
possibilities for unique capabilities and use them as learning
tools.

Thanks to Dr. Howard Gardner at Harvard University, we find

new hope within this evidence for at least eight distinctive
intelligences within all normal human brains. Yes, that
includes yours. Each one comes with all eight, and daily we
can increase intelligences as we use and expand them.

Over years, I’ve known, interacted with and have been

encouraged personally by Gardner, especially from his
enormous contribution to providing evidence for new
potential within human minds.

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Few would deny that most of us use a very small
portion of our mental ability ~ but those who use
more brain find greater contentment and success.

That’s why Gardner called my Mita work the

pioneer work for multiple intelligences in young
adults. Neurology and other related fields have
opened wonderful new possibilities for those who
discover and cultivate creative intelligences The
good news is that you too can benefit from these
breakthrough facts about your amazing brain.

In the above survey you’ve already begun to

awaken intelligences that build on unique and
innate strengths. Enjoy this exhilarating journey
and watch your personal potential leap to higher
watersheds with awesome possibilities.

In the following pages – build your own vast

supply of multiple intelligences – through dozens
of MI task cards that awaken your students’ many
unique intelligences.

These popular learning tasks come with

opportunities for you to also create your own
tasks to fit any lesson or any age learner.

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Graph your intelligences to show your strengths
Verbal-Linguistic

Bodily-Kinesthetic

Logical-Math

Visual-Spatial

Musical

Interpersonal

Intrapersonal

Naturalistic

Fill in graph below with colors for your intelligences

Name: __________________________
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Play with awesome ideas from your
students’ mix of intelligences ~

Analyze Text
Through Multiple
Intelligence Tasks~
https://goo.gl/JmVxc2

Create Advanced
Multiple Intelligence
Adventures~
https://goo.gl/RneBwb

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 Start Every New term with an
Intelligence Survey!

File and refer

to their survey
results

CCSS includes practice for

comprehension -
presentation.
http://www.corestandards.or
g/ELA-Literacy/CCRA/SL
Includes all standards in
strand.
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