Synthesized Ch. 4

Team 4(Ryan, Renee, Aaron, Mackenzie)
9/16/07
Multiple Intelligences
Chapter 4

Write a brief abstract of the chapter.
This chapter focused on teaching the MI Theory to your students. Armstrong stresses that this will help the children realize their own strengths and weaknesses and help them gain insight about why they are “good” at some things and “bad” at others. Armstrong also points out that if kids know about MI then they will be able to understand why teachers may be teaching the same subject different ways. Armstrong also gives some follow-up activities to teaching kids about MI including career days, field trips, famous biographies, and a “human intelligence hunt”. All of these activities will help provide support to your lesson about MI and show kids physical proof that all eight intelligences exist in the working world.

How did you connect to the reading and briefly reflect on your thoughts?
We felt that this chapter provided some really great information. By teaching kids about their own intelligences they can understand how they learn best and be able to tell us as teachers and their parents at home. We believe it is important to know also know how people around them work and operate so teaching the MI Theory is also good because it will teach kids how their peers learn. This is a vital life skill that the kids can also use when their in the work force. Lastly, we thought this was a way for us as teachers to show that we care and are interested in making sure they all learn the material without being “too friendly”. Many kids express the feeling that they don’t like it when teachers are “fake-friendly” and teaching MI makes us seem like we care but also like we are teachers not friends.