Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 4

In Chapter 4 the authors provide you examples of how you can teach MI in your classrooms. 

The first thing you want to do is to simply explain the theory to them.  You can alter your vocabulary so that all of the students understand what some of the different categories are.  Another helpful idea is to make a MI Pizza that is cut into 8 different slices with pictures and easy to understand words that describe each one. 

Different ways to teach MI Theory are:

• Career Day: Invite members of your community that represent the different intelligences and see how the students interact with them.
• Field Trip: Try and take your kids to different places that bring out their naturally MI’s.
• Biographies: Have your student learn about different well-known people and how they use their different intelligence to exceed in their professions.
• Lesson Plans: For this you can have your students be aware that you are going to teach in all of the 8 intelligences and have them try and guess what activity went with each intelligence.
• Quick experimental activities: Find different ways in which the students can response quickly in each intelligence.
• Wall Displays: Try and find posters of 8 people who succeed in the array of intelligences.
• Displays: Show products made by students that show examples of the intelligences
• Readings: Provide students with readings on MI
• MI Tables: Provide 8 different areas in which students can go to use that specific intelligence.
• MI stories, songs or play: You can create different stories, songs or plays with the help of your students to portray the intelligences in different ways.