22 multicultural nature of Gardner’s theory in his own book “Frames of Mind”
which said that MI as people’s ability to create problems to be solved.
b. The Goal of Multiple Intelligences MI
Teachers must find a way to make the students feel interested with the teaching learning activity. Nolen 2003 advised that school teachers instruct their
students in a way that can engage the MI theory in classroom lessons. It means that when school teachers can give more attention to students’ individual needs, it
means the students can be more likely to develop to their full potential in the classroom. The goal of applying MI in the classroom itself is to help the students
become more active and successful learners. Furthermore, the students can find more comfortable and suitable ways to learn on the lesson for themselves.
c. The Function and Benefits of MI
For many reasons, having an understanding of different teaching approaches from which we all can learn is very valuable in increasing the
accessibility of learning experiences for all students. Human abilities and potentials are the real evidence which proves that MI does exist. These
intelligences can be fully utilized either individually or combined. MI has some importance in education. The importance of the MI in
education is to highlight uniqueness which exists in each of student. It also brings out the students’ dominant intelligences to come up. Next, the dominant
intelligence may help the students in learning process. MI also provides variety of learning experiences and MI teaching. At least, MI is open for variety of
assessment methods and variety of means of expression Hoerr, 2000. On the
23 other words, MI gives more chances for more varieties of technique in assessing
the result. It also gives more opportunities for the use of variety expression that might be used in the learning process.
Since MI seems flexible to any creativity in the way to apply it, MI also has some benefits. The benefits of the theory of MI is that it can be applied to any
kinds of school and family since it provides teaching methods more rooms and chances for creativity. MI also emphasizes on comprehension and gives more
chances to apply new knowledge, techniques and concepts to the teaching process. It means that MI gives more opportunities for applying new knowledge,
methods even the concept in the teaching learning process. It gives more chances for teachers to find new creative ways that may useful and suitable for the
students’ needs. In fact, providing different contexts for students and then engaging the
variety of their sense are supported by research. For the specific, it means providing students with multiple ways to access contents which improves learning
process Hattie, 2011. It also provides students with various ways to demonstrate their knowledge and skills which increases engagement and learning, which
provides teachers with deeper and suitable understanding of students’ knowledge and skills Darling-Hammond, 2010. It means that MI could not only provide
teachers with more choices in the way of teaching and assessment methods, but it also allows the students to demonstrate what they have learned in many different
ways which really reflects themselves. Another research motivation, then, is to
