Chapter 6 MI

Summary-

In this chapter they went through each intelligent and talked about the teaching strategies that we should use within our classrooms. The first one talked about was linguistics; they stated that this is one of the easiest ones to use. The examples they gave were: storytelling, tape recording, brainstorming, journal writing and publishing. The next intelligence was logical; the examples were calculations and quantifications, classifications and categorizations, Socratic questioning, heuristics and science thinking. After that was spatial learning, here they suggested visualization, color cues, picture metaphors, idea sketching, and graphic symbols. Next up was body and kinesthetics, here there are so many choices like Classroom Theater, body answers, kinesthetic concepts, body maps and hands-on thinking. Following that was musical intelligence; here the suggestions were rhymes, songs, raps and chants all as one, discographies, supermemory music, musical concepts and mood music. My favorite is interpersonal; here they suggested having peer sharing, people sculptures, cooperative groups, board games, and simulations. Another easy one is intrapersonal; here we can have one minute reflection times, personal connections, choice time, feeling-toned moments and finally goal-setting sessions. The final intelligence was naturalist; here they suggested for us to nature walks, windows onto learning, plants as props, per-in-the-classroom and finally ecostudy.

Reflections-

As a whole we all enjoyed this chapter and we all commented on the fact we want to get back into the classroom to start using all these great ideas that we got from this chapter. Luke commented on how he is going to keep this chapter bookmarked for further reference. Mike and myself the examples to help us with our WHERETO’s. Heather was just excited to reflect on the examples to help her build her own classroom. She commented on the fact that she wanted to step out of her comfort zone and this chapter was going to help her do so.