MI Chapter 5

Chapter Five provides a “broad range of stimulating curricula to awaken the slumbering brains that Goodlad fears populate our nations schools.” It says that we as teachers need to reach beyond the books and boards to turn up to excitement in the school. As a MI teacher, one should use all eight MI techniques in the teachings. Switching from one to another and even grouping intelligences can benefit the classroom as well as the students. This chapter gives many examples in all the eight intelligences for teachers to create a lesson around. By focusing on a specific topic, asking key MI questions, using MI techniques, brainstorming, selecting an appropriate activity, setting up a plan, and implementing the plan, a teacher is able to create a terrific lesson plan that benefits their classroom and the content standards. I believe that teachers that have strayed away from the textbook can work better with the students who are not linguistic learners and are more open to helping a wide variety of students. Yet, the textbooks do serve as a great tool to keep a lesson on track. Being able to swing from MI teaching to contemporary teaching is the best way a teacher can teach in my opinion.