Interpersonal Intelligence

Interpersonal Intelligence or "The Socializer" is the intelligence that has the ability to understand other people. It is the ability to interact with others, understand them, and interpret their behavior. These individuals have the particular ability to perceive the moods, temperaments, motivations and intentions of others.

• People come to me for advice
• Prefer group sports
• Seek out people when I have a problem for advice
• Likes games like monopoly rather than solitaire
• Enjoy teaching others what I know
• Considers oneself to be a leader
• Enjoys crowds
• Rather be at a noisy party than stay at home

The interpersonal intelligence individual may find a career in areas like a therapist, nurse, religious leader, community organizer, salesperson, teacher, politician or a mediator.

Dr. Ruth, Harry Truman, Nelson Rockefeller, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Molly Pitcher.

Students may enjoy using/doing programs that include telecommunications, address social issues, group participation, games that are for two or more people, interaction with characters in a simulation, guidance programs. They enjoy being involved in clubs, committees, and after school activities. These types of students thrive on small-group work, when they notice and react to the moods of their friends and classmates. This is the student who convinces the teacher of their need for extra time to complete assignments.

Keywords include: group work, intuition, giving feedback, cooperative learning, person to person, empathy, division of labor, collaborative skills, receiving feedback, and sensing motives. This intelligence is activated when a person interacts with others to accomplish something.

• utilize cooperative learning techniques for covering subject matter.
• conduct interviews to gather information on a given area of study.
• teach someone how to do/understand something in a given area of study.
• role-play a famous character to gain understanding about the character.
• work on an issue important to the community.

http://www.westtown.edu/lower/activities/working_together.html, illustrates the values of grades working together. 2nd graders and kindergartners reading twice a week.

http://www.clcrc.com/, conducts research and uses the theory of cooperative learning to develop programs for use in schools.

http://www.dalton.org/curriculum/hs/peer_tutoring.shtml, ideas on starting a “peer tutoring” project

http://www.motivateus.com/stories/motivate.htm, focus on the positive in the classroom