MI Chapter 5 Synthesis

Name: Group 2 Date: 10/3/07
Book Title: Multiple Intelligences Chapter: 5

Abstract:
Chapter five discusses the influence of the MI’s on teachers and how they must establish an expansive bag of tricks to meet the criteria of all of their students needs. In response to this, teachers have started to instruct their classes thematically, meaning they try to incorporate real life situations into their lessons in order to make them that much more beneficial to their students. There were a lot of charts throughout the chapter which worked to highlight the types of activities a teacher can use in a classroom to accommodate all of the MI’s. It spoke about a teacher’s ability to translate the terms, tools, and concepts that are so innate to one subject into a language that can be understood by all other MI’s. This way subjects are less likely to become categorized by which MI’s are good at them, but rather by which teachers can make them understood by all MI’s.

Reflect:
As a group, we really appreciated the charts within the chapter and thought that they were really strong resources for the future. However, we did also still feel really daunted by the task of incorporating the MI’s into our lessons all the time. I think that each of us would love to be able to do this, but find it really hard to imagine all the ways to accomplish this.