Multiple Intelligences Chapter 8

Chapter 8 of Multiple Intelligences discusses classroom management. It says that the classroom requires order. It then goes on to suggest a variety of different ways MI theory can be used in different situations that come up in the classroom. I thought most of the suggestions were incredibly novel, except for a couple of the Naturalist ones. I find it fairly far-fetched that a teacher would be able to bring an animal into the classroom in order to get and keep the attention of students. It seems more likely to me that the live animal would capture the attention, but then students would continue to be distracted by it all period. It’s possible with something like a snake that this wouldn’t happen, but with a bird, forget it. Other than that, though, I liked what the book had to say. I can definitely see myself coming back to this chapter for suggestions on earning the attention of my students and ways to communicate class rules.