MI Chapter 4

This chapter helped me a lot by giving me ideas to express and introduce Multiple Intelligence Theory (MI).  I think bringing in different people for a career day that would represent intelligences in MI would be an excellent idea.  I could educate each adult about what sort of big ideas they should each express effectively when describing their job.  Afterwards, I could ask each student which job they liked the best and why.  I could read their reflections and see which type of MI they are interested in.  Also, taking field trips to places representing the MI’s and observe which intelligence my students would gravitate towards would be a great idea.  Studying biographies of famous people of different MI and representing each culture, race, gender, and ethnic background and asking students to report on which famous person they liked reading about the most would be a good indicator of MI.  Finally, I like the MI tables’ idea.  Setting up tables with activities expressing each MI and observing which table my students enjoy the most would give me the information I seek.

            By using these different activities, it will make my job much easier developing lesson plans, coming up with assignments, and projects that fill the void my students need to learn best.  In high school, my teachers never really did different activities and I remember not putting in my full effort because the curriculum didn’t seem interesting to me.  If the curriculum were presented to me in a different way then I would have most likely put more effort and care into my work.  All students want to learn, it is up to teacher to figure out how it works best for them.