Chapter 5 MI: MI Theory and Curriculum Development

This chapter dealt with the many different ways to take the multiple intelligences and create lessons for these intelligences. MI theory’s key focus is for teachers to branch out from their typical way of teaching by lecturing, and involving new ways for lessons to be taught. While I was reading this chapter I realized that towards the end of my high school career my high school English teacher was trying to use this MI theory to teach us some of Shakespeare’s plays. Since, as a class we had never been introduced with this way of teaching, we were unsure of what to think. But, thinking about it now, I really liked her lesson plans where we didn’t just sit and listen to the book, but actually act it out, or to make a movie in current time of what we thought the play would be like. When I’m teaching, I will be sure to consult this chapter, when I need ideas for how to set up a lesson for my hard to reach students, or just to get the class thinking a different way.