Interpersonal Intelligence

Interpersonal Intelligence Interpersonal Intelligence is the ability to perceive and make distinctions in the moods, intentions, motivations, and feelings of other people. This can include the sensitivity to facial expressions, voice, and gestures. It includes the ability to follow these cues and to respond effectively.

Characteristics

• Enjoys cooperative games
• Understands the feelings of
• Has lots of friends
• Prefers group problem-solving
• Can mediate conflicts
• Understands and recognizes stereotypes and prejudices
• Volunteers to help when others need it
• Reflects often on their own attitudes and behavior
• Feels comfortable in a crowd
• Dislikes studying alone

Teaching Ideas

• Giving feedback
• Intuiting other’s feelings
• Cooperative learning strategies
• Person to person communications
• Empathy practices
• Division of labor
• Collaboration skills
• Receiving feedback
• Sensing other’s motives
• Group projects

Assessment Ideas

• Group "jigsaws"
• Explaining to or teaching another
• Think-Fair-Share
• Round-Robin
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Interviews, questionnaires and people searches
• Empathetic processing
• Random group quizzes
• Assess your teammates
• Test, coach, and retest