Chapter 8: MI and Classroom Management

Chapter 8 of Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom discussed using the multiple intelligences as a means of managing classrooms. Many of these techniques I’ve seen used before – the summer camp I worked at made extensive use of kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal techniques for getting the attention of students. Managing individual behaviors is one of my fears, and I hadn’t thought of many of the ideas given in the chapter (Some of them would have come in very handy over the summer)! The chart that the chapter supplied was really a great summation of what the chapter was discussing. Aggressive, withdrawn, and hyperactive children have always tested me and made me doubt my ability to help them, but now that I know more than one outlet for dealing with it, I feel a lot more confident.