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Core Characteristics:

• Affective Awareness – the knowledge of one's feelings, attitudes and outlook
• Ethical Awareness – the setting of one's principles and moral priorities
• Self-Regulation – monitoring one's thoughts, actions and behavior
• Metacognition – the awareness of one's thought processes

Students with a strong intrapersonal intelligence:

• Are comfortable with themselves
• Express strong like or dislike of particular activities
• Communicate their feelings
• Sense their own strengths and weaknesses
• Show confidence in their abilities
• Set realistic goals
• Make appropriate choices
• Follow their instincts
• Express a sense of justice and fairness
• Relate to others based on their sense of self

Support this intelligence in the classroom by:

• Differentiating instruction
• Using analogies in making comparisons
• Providing activities which offer learner choices
• Having students set goals for themselves in the classroom
• Including daily journal writing in your classroom routine
• Providing opportunities for learners to express their feelings on a topic
• Allowing opportunities for student reflection on learning
• Examining current events in terms of social justice
• Including student self-assessment in classroom assessment strategies
• Utilizing interest inventories, questionnaires, interviews and other approaches to measuring student growth

Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:

• Journals
• Diaries
• Surveys
• Voting machines
• Learning centers
• Children's literature
• Class discussion
• Real time projects
• Online surveys
• Online forms
• Digital portfolios
• Self-assessments