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=== **Amy** === CH. 9 The main ingredients in the recipe of an educationally prosperous school are the eight intelligences. This means that a traditional school can diversify itself simply by incorporating what everybody is good at, into lessons, classroom environment, and grading/assessing mechanisms. A school based on the ideals of MI Theory is a successful school because it allows students to interact with their learning, incorporate music into their learning, and more. Daily instruction should be in all eight intelligences, so as to draw in every student. As Gardner puts it, “an MI school teaches traditional subjects in non-traditional ways” (MI p.83). For example, in a class that is intended to provide students with an understanding of local and state history, could design a project that has students put together a scrapbook/photo-journal depicting historical places in the town/state. Doing so would combine history with an area of intelligence fitting to students that are visual learners. Any reason for using creativity within an individuals’ area of high intelligence is welcomed at a MI school and everyone benefits. Teachers should also be responsible for determining and keeping track of their students’ skills and special abilities in order to determine how to structure lessons and projects. This also helps because it enables adults to help students determine which classes and activities that might interest them.
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Brian
Chapter nine re-emphasizes the need to be flexible in lesson plans. When preparing a lesson we need to ensure that the lesson has the ability to be flexible and is made in a way that can be molded to ensure covering all learning styles. By using unique differentiation techniques the backwards model of lesson planning can be very successful on every level of learning. We need to be sure that when constructing a lesson plan we need to be sure that the lesson creates a positive, supportive, but challenging environment for our students to learn. When we do this combined with the adaptations to cover our students learning styles we can ensure student progress.