In Chapter 4 of Armstrong’s book, Multiple Intelligences, he discusses how simple it is to explain multiple intelligences. What amazed me was that it could be done in a process that takes five minutes and uses a basic visual as simplistic as a pizza broken into eight sections. He used many examples that seemed intriguing such as creating board games, going on field trips, hunting for answers, etc. One of my favorites that he used was having a career day to discuss multiple intelligences. This method would be an exciting one to use in the classroom because not only would it leave the students with strong examples to each of the intelligences, but gives them something to help them better relate it to themselves.
I feel it is important to teach students multiple intelligences. Teachers understand how their students learn and students will want to discover ways they learn best, so it would be beneficial to teach them. This is an easy way to give students and understanding of themselves and would also help the educators get a feel of where each student is.
In my English classroom, I would find it exciting to do something similar to the career day, but instead use the characters of one of our novels. This would be a fun exercise that would also help students relate better to the piece of literature and find a character closely related to them.
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