Chapter 5: MI and Curriculum Development

Teaching to different intelligences isn’t a new concept: Plato, Rousseau and countless others throughout history have made note of different ways of learning. Now, this concept has transformed into a way of teaching that is essential in the modern classroom. MI teachers need to be able to shift from one intelligence to the next in their teaching to ensure that they reach all students. Most classrooms are focused on the teacher delivering the content through lectures, notes, worksheets, and textbooks. In an MI classroom, the teacher spends time brainstorming and planning different ways to teach to all the intelligences. When planning a curriculum, I will need to be constantly thinking, “how can I translate this to a different intelligence?” The goal is to be able to create lessons, units, and curriculum that cater to all types of learning, and this can be done through asking questions, considering the possibilities, brainstorming, creating suiting activities, making a plan, and setting it into action.