Multiple Intelligences Chapter 7

Chapter 7 of Multiple Intelligences talks about designing a classroom environment to appeal to all of the intelligences. The most interesting part of the chapter to me was the section that went over different “permanent open-ended activity centers” for each of the intelligences. Reading this list and thinking about the average size of the classrooms I’ve been in, it seems like it would be impossible to have one of these for every intelligence and still maintain a reasonable depth for each one. I feel it might make more sense to have each subject area be dedicated to developing several of the intelligences; for instance, we could say that English class focuses on developing Linguistic, Interpersonal, and Naturalist skills, and design the classroom accordingly. I feel like the goal should be to develop all of the student’s intelligences rather than gearing curriculum to appeal to the student’s most developed intelligence.