Chapter 4

In this chapter I learned that children benefit from instructional approaches that help them reflect upon their own learning experiences. They can reflect on their own learning experiences and relate them to multiple intelligences. To have students do this, a teacher has to introduce multiple intelligences by explaining it. I also learned that it is best to describe the intelligences using simple terms and by being inclusive, for example by saying who likes reading? I learned that as a teacher I should strive to teach students the multiple intelligences using all eight intelligences. This chapter impacted the way that I would teach the meaning behind multiple intelligences. I would think more about how I was going to introduce each one that would be inclusive since it would be easy to say something like “who is good at math? If yes you have logical intelligence” but that would leave out students that aren't good at math or who feel as though they are bad at math. I would also have to do a lot of planning to make sure that besides being inclusive, I am also introducing each intelligence in a way that students with different intelligences understand. I have to introduce each intelligence using all eight intelligences which will not be an easy task. I would have to plan a time to introduce the multiple intelligences instead of introducing them when I felt it was necessary or when there was extra time at the end of a class period, for example on a test day.