Chapter 2

As an educator chapter 2 tells me that I should first apply a model of learning to myself before I apply it in my classroom. This means that I need to determine the nature and quality of my own multiple intelligences and seek ways to develop them in my own life. I learned that the purpose of the multiple intelligence inventory is to begin to connect my life experiences with the eight intelligences. In order to accomplish this I need to look back in my experiences with the eight intelligences. As a teacher I will have to know how to tap resources in the intelligences that I would typical shy away from in classroom use. One of the best ways to do this is to draw on colleague’s expertise. In this chapter I also learned that there is 3 factors that an intelligence’s development depends on. The first is biological meaning that genetic factors or brain damage can influence an intelligence’s development. The second is an individual’s personal life history meaning experiences with parents, teachers, peers, and friends who either awaken an intelligence or keep it from developing by actively repressing the individual. The third factor is an individual’s cultural and historical background, in other words the time and place in which someone was born and raised. The second factor is particularly important to know as a teacher because as a teacher you wouldn’t want to repress a student from developing any of the intelligences. The other two important things that I learned about in this chapter where crystallizing experiences and paralyzing experiences. As a teacher I want to provide crystallizing experiences so that a spark is created that can help a student develop talents and abilities that develop one of the eight intelligences.