Chapter 2: MI and Personal Development

In chapter two, the book focuses upon how teachers may utilize various intelligences within the classroom. While a teacher may tend to thrive in a logical manner, she must still focus upon students who prefer bodily kinesthetic or linguistic. This was valuable to my learning as it applied our class discussions regarding each student’s preferred learning method. In an effort to reach all students, the teacher must expand her own comfort zone by either asking for help from other faculty members or asking the students for input, thus allowing them involvement in their own education. As the book discussed the factors which impaired students’ learning, it is important for future teachers to remember that they too can become negative influences on students various intelligences. Instead, teachers should encourage each student to utilize each of their various intelligences and learn in their own way.