Chapter 3- Multiple Intelligences: Describing Intelligences in Students.

This chapter revolves around how to dig deeper into the issue of how to best access the multiple intelligences of the students. This chapter also discusses the idea that every person is capable of increasing their proficiency in their own multiple intelligences. It provides an insight on how teachers and parents can get involved within their child's' life and reinforce certain multiple intelligences as well as recognize which multiple intelligences they are already proficient with.
The best ways to assess the students’ multiple intelligences are to observe them, how they behave or misbehave within class, as well as observe them outside of class but within the school setting. There are also several other ways to get an assessment information about students’ multiple intelligences such as collecting documents, reviewing school records such as their grades over the years or test scores. Other strategies to review students in general as well as their learning is to talk with other teachers, to talk with parents, and set up special activities which enhance their intelligences as well as using reinforcements around the room. Talking with parents is beneficial because they can then come to future parent-teacher meetings with a better understanding and additional information about that student that can be useful for the teacher. Asking the students themselves is the best way to understand them because no one will know them better than themselves. Learning ways to understand and work on the different multiple intelligences can help to create a better learning atmosphere and a better work ethic. This chapter also reinforces the idea that teachers need to get to know their students very well in order to help them succeed not only with their academics but with their everyday lives. Learning how you learn is a valuable tool to any student as well as the teacher.


Overall, many people agreed that this chapter gave further insight into the application of MI and how to identify the different intelligences. This chapter allowed many people to truly understand how to describe multiple intelligences as well as improve on the different them. This approach was seen as a way that can help motivate the students and ultimately help them to become better learners. This chapter really enhances the idea that student's can also take education into their hands and enhance their own learning. This chapter reveals that being a hands on teacher is vital to a student's learning.