Chapter 5: MI and Curriculum Development

This chapter is about designing a curriculum to teach to all of the multiple intelligences. The idea is that any lesson can be taught eight different ways. A teacher does not have to teach a whole lesson 8 different times. The point is that the teacher should take a topic and brain storm how each intelligence would learn best about that topic. Then figure out how to incorporate a piece of each intelligence into one lesson. Try to keep the order of a normal lesson plan while incorporating the different intelligences. The last thought of this chapter is to include real life examples or applications. This affects me as a teacher when I build my lessons. If I brain stormed about how to teach the lesson to all the different intelligences before I created the lesson, I would have much more success in keeping my students engaged. This affects my students by creating more meaning for them in the content. The students will understand the importance of material more if they can connect it to real life or their own lives.