In this chapter I learned a lot about how you can determine a student's intelligence without actually delivering a multiple intelligence test. I learned that there are many ways in which you can do this including: collecting documents, looking a school records, talking to the students, and even talking to parents. However, the easiest way of doing this would be to just observe your students in the classroom. The authors suggest that by watching the way your students misbehave in class you can learn about their intelligences. One quote that really stuck out to me in that particular section said, “These students are metaphorically saying through their misbehaviors: ‘This is how I learn, teacher, and if you don’t teach me in the way that I most naturally learn, guess what? I’m going to do it anyway!’”. This just struck me to be an incredibly powerful statement because it is absolutely true. We have all either watched a student or peer do this, or we were that student. If a teacher does not tender to your learning needs you are going to do anything you can to get through that class, even though you may not learn much at all. Overall, I found this chapter very helpful, and I know that this will definitely be useful in my classroom. I know now that I don’t necessarily need to test all of my students for their multiple intelligences, but rather I have many other resources available to me. I also know now that if I am not proactive about observing my students and using my resources to learn more about them, they will not learn the information I’m trying to teach.
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