Core Characteristics:
- Collaborative Skills – the capability to jointly complete tasks with others
- Cooperative Attitude – the willingness to offer and accept input
- Leadership – recognition by peers as someone to follow
- Social Influence – an ability to persuade others
- Social Empathy – an awareness and concern for others
- Social Connection – a skill for meaningfully relating to others
Students with a strong interpersonal intelligence:
- Seek the support of a group
- Value relationships
- Enjoy collaborative work
- Solicit input from others
- Enjoy sharing about themselves
- Display a "winning" personality
- Tend to be natural leaders
Support this intelligence in the classroom by:
- Allowing interaction among students during learning tasks
- Including activities where students work in groups
- Providing opportunities for students to select their own groups
- Forming cooperative groups wherein each member has an assigned role
- Planning activities where students form teams to be successful
- Allowing competition that promotes higher level achievement
- Incorporating structured dramatic activities in which students can role play
- Utilizing resource people to invigorate your classroom
- Promoting interaction with other classes by participating in learning tasks together
Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:
- Class discussion
- Post-it notes
- Greeting card
- Laboratory
- Telephone
- Walkie-talkie
- Intercom
- Board games
- Costumes
- Collaborative projects
- Chat
- Message boards
- Instant messenger
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