Chapter 4: Teaching Students About MI Theory

I’d always just figured that I would explain the Multiple Intelligences theory to students. While a lot of the techniques explained in this chapter were innovative and creative, many of them seem to be targeted towards younger children. These are of course excellent techniques for those grade levels, in my opinion. However, this is operating under the assumption that they’ve already been introduced at one point to these, as I was. If students have never been introduced to MI Theory, these may be excellent ways to start. In that case, I’d be glad to use them in my classroom. For my envisioned classroom, the biography exercise would be very fitting, as would the reading from books about MI Theory. I also thought the Human Intelligence Hunt was a really cute idea, especially for students who don’t know each other very well. It almost (almost) makes me wish I were planning on teaching a younger crowd.