A Proposed List of Secondary School Teachers’ Competencies to Deal with Multiple Intelligences among their Students

Abstract

The intelligence's found in high school students are many, but we rarely find a teacher has all the necessary competencies in dealing with such diverse intelligence's and to identify, develop, and enrich, and straightened it, This study aimed to build a arbitrative list of secondary school teachers necessary qualifications to deal with multiple intelligence's among their students in Mafraq – Jordan schools, to achieve the objective of the study we relied on descriptive analytical method in reference to literature and researches on multiple intelligences, methods of measurement, development and enrichment, The list was made in its initial form then presented to a variety of experts and specialists, and adjustments was made  in the light of their opinions and guidance, it was finalized in light of the proportion of acceptable agreement  to the arbitrators' views. The study reached a final list of required competencies for teachers to deal with multiple intelligences among their students, the study reached a final list of competencies necessary for teachers to deal with several intelligences among their students, namely: linguistic intelligence, mathematical intelligence, social intelligence in dealing with the identification, development and enrichment, and evaluation of it. The study also recommended the need to hold training courses for teachers to develop those competencies to be an essential component of their goals and their teaching performance within the classroom.