Chapter 8: MI and Classroom Management

This chapter discusses methods of grasping and holding the attention of students who have various strong traits in multiple intelligences. In addition, the teacher can use knowledge of student intelligence throughout the course of the class as well as in creating groups and understand student behavior. Using this chapter, I can consider methods of classroom management. This was a nice reminder that not all students respond to the same courses of classroom management, but that the traditional response of speaking to the class in an effort to regain attention will work the most effectively with verbal learners, yet other methods should be used to obtain the interest of other students. Another great aspect of this chapter was the idea of transition cues so automatically recognize when they should change activities, without the classroom becoming chaotic. For example, to capture the attention of a musical learner, playing music to signal a transition is an excellent method of showing students that it is time to change what they are doing. While this is primarily focused upon musical learners, all will understand the expectation when the music begins.