MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES: MENGOPTIMALKAN KECERDASAN ANAK SEBAGAI UPAYA DALAM MEMPERSIAPKAN GENERASI EMAS MASA DEPAN

Abstract

The studentsÔǃ success in learning is not only dependent on their own ability. There
are a number of factors that can cause; they are facilitation, teachers competence,
students intelligence, infrastructure, and learning process. The dominant factor are
teachers and the students, teachers as educators should be master in all teacher
competences especially pedagogy competence. Pedagogic competence relates to the
way how to make a plan, arrange teaching strategy, and conduct a good teaching and
learning process. In performing his task the teacher should understand the studentsÔǃ
characteristics well, in order to guide teacher in teaching and learning process.
StudentÔǃs intelligences not only depend on his heredity but also environment factors.
Individual development is the effect of heredity and environment aspects, both are
equally instrumental to development of individual. These understandings would be
beneficial in order to construct the learning strategy. The teachers need to reunderstand
about student characteristics and multiple intelligences, and know the
way to optimize existing intelligence of the students.