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Smart Options Career Exploration Based on Multiple Intelligences

Discover your unique mix of multiple intelligences and explore career possibilities that align with your strengths and interests. This lesson plan covers assessing your smarts, identifying smart roles in work settings, creating your smarts profile, and building your smarts. Take charge of your career exploration and development!

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Smart Options Career Exploration Based on Multiple Intelligences

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  1. Smart Options Career Exploration Based on Multiple Intelligences

  2. Smart Options • Theory • Howard Gardner, 1983, Frames of the Mind: • The Theory of Multiple Intelligences • - Functionality, utility or value of behavior to society • - Exceptional people – 1 area, under-developed in others • Thomas Armstrong, 1993, 7 Kinds of Smart: • Identifying and Developing Your Many Intelligences • Daniel Goleman, 1995, Emotional Intelligence

  3. Theory Gardner Armstrong • Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence Body Smart • Interpersonal Intelligence (EI) People Smart (EI) • Intrapersonal Intelligence (EI) Self Smart (EI • Linguistic Intelligence Word Smart • Logical-Mathematical Intelligence Logic Smart • Musical Intelligence Music Smart • Naturalist Intelligence Nature Smart • Spatial Intelligence Picture Smart

  4. Smart Options • Guiding Principles • Intelligence is pluralistic and multi-dimensional • 2. Multiple intelligences are inherent in all people • 3. Multiple intelligences can be identified and described • 4. Multiple intelligences can be developed and strengthened • 5. Everyone has a unique mix of multiple intelligences

  5. Guiding Principles 6. Everyone is entitled to recognize, express and cultivate her/his intelligence 7. Intelligences constantly interact in our motivation, attitudes and behavior 8. Knowledge of one’s intelligences enhances self –esteem and self-confidence 9. Knowledge of one’s intelligences stimulates self-direction and self-reliance 10. Multiple intelligences are a good bases for exploring life and work options

  6. Smart Options • Lesson Plan One • Discover and Assess Your Smarts • Objectives • Introduce participants to multiple intelligences and help them assess their smarts • 1 to 1 ½ hours • Activities • Changes in the work world. How many expect … ? • Explore the concept of intelligence (5 people, test items, canoe – capacity to adapt) • Introduce 8 smarts • Participants assess their smarts • Suggested variations

  7. Smart Options • Lesson Plan Two • Practice Using Smart Ideas • Objectives • Increase familiarity with smarts and explore their role in work settings • 1 to 1 ½ hours • Activities • Identify the main and secondary smarts in job examples (Chef in expensive hotel, creativity) • Identify the relevance of identified smarts in example jobs • Smarts and life choices

  8. Smart Options • Lesson Plan Three • Create Your Smarts Profile and Explore Career Possibilities • Objectives • Teach participants to generate their Smarts Profiles and research potential career domains using their profiles • 1 to 1 ½ hours (additional research time by participants) • Activities • Participants create their Smarts Profiles (check distribution of strongest smarts) • Putting Smarts Profiles to work • Converting occupational profiles to smart occupational profiles

  9. Smart Options • Lesson Plan Four • Build Your Smarts • Objectives • To reinforce that awareness of smarts enhances employability and capacity to adapt in all aspects of life, to establish that smarts can be developed and strengthened, and to provide suggestions for building smarts • ½ hour • Activities • Discuss advantages of seeing oneself in terms of 8 smarts • Review strategies for building smarts

  10. Connecting to the Real Game Smart Options The High Five Career Building Principles Focus on the journey, not the destination. Become a good traveler. You’re not alone. Access your allies, and be a good ally. Change is constant, and brings with it new opportunities. Learning is lifelong, and it’s good. We are most alive when we are learning. Know yourself, believe in yourself and follow your heart.

  11. For more information Vicki Gray New York State Department of Labor Career Resource Network Office Victoria.gray@labor.state.ny.us 518-402-0440

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