Blog #5

How to Address Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom: Tips and resources for putting MI theory into practice.

by Sara Bernard

http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-immersion-enota-how-to

The article that I read is about meeting the different intelligent needs of children in a classroom. Having a classroom that serves the needs, interests, and strengths of each child in that classroom is highly effective. Some of the tips that are offered in the article are reading a book. The article mentions that learning more about multiple intelligences is a good thing to do because it will tell you the different kinds of intelligences there are and what you as a teacher can do. Teachers can also use online resources to learn more about multiple intelligences. It will also help the teacher with ideas on what kinds of projects to do and so forth. The teacher can also assess students intelligences by serving up a set of multiple assignments and paying close attention to the way each child does the assignment. The teacher can also visit another school that is doing the same thing. this will bring more ideas to the table. The teacher can come up with learning contracts for the students. These contracts are done for the students' assignments. the article mentions that the students sometimes have a choice of which assignment they want to do, and sometimes the students have to do all of the assignments. And finally, the article mentions that having a team of teachers doing the same things would be very helpful because as it is, coming up with a curriculum with regular lessons is hard, now having a curriculum with multiple intelligences would be harder. And as always when starting something new, take baby steps. There are some things that might work and there are some things that will just not work.
Having a curriculum with many intelligences sounds like a very advanced GT class. I would like to know if any form of technology is used for a classroom with multiple intelligences.