Chapter 5: MI Theory and Teaching Strategies

The fifth chapter of Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom is focused on how a teacher can design his/her lesson plans to include all types of learners. One of the important points this chapter makes is that a teacher should use a theme over the course of the year to show how the material they are covering relates to the real world. This will be especially important to a math class. One of the favorite questions of students who do not like math is, “when are we going to use this”. By designing the answer to that question into the lessons, students will begin to understand that math is all around them. Another interesting point in this chapter is the breakdown of a lesson plan. They are showing eight different days spent on one idea, having an activity for each of the intelligences on different days. This seems great in theory but I question how realistic it is to think you are going to cover the same materiel eight different days.