Team 4
Practicum Block 1
10/25/2007
Reflection on
Book: Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom - Armstrong
Chapters: 14 – Multiple Intelligence and Existential Intelligence
Write a brief abstract of the chapter:
This chapter discusses the possibility of a ninth intelligence, the existential intelligence. The chapter defines this intelligence as being a student who questions everything, and is continually trying to get to an answer, or a deeper level. It discusses how this intelligence can be mistaken for an advocacy for religion, but in reality it is simply just a form of deeper thought; philosophical. The chapter concludes with a discussion on how a classroom could be adapted for such a learner, and it basically says to help them understand by helping them to find the answers to their own questions.
How did you connect to the reading? And briefly reflect on your thoughts.
Not all of us liked this chapter. Some of us really liked it, and valued the content it had surrounding the ninth intelligence, but some of us did not understand the intelligence itself, and some of us could not see how it could be incorporated into the classroom. We looked at the idea of a ninth intelligence with a careful eye, and Renee and Mackenzie really like the concept, and agree with it completely. Ryan and Aaron had a harder time warming up to the idea. They could not see how it could be used, or how it was an intelligence at all.
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