Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School: Book review
Author TR Hoerr said that all kids are smart, but they are smart in different ways in his book 'Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School'. Hoerr transacted the multiple intelligences (MI)-based curriculum at the New City School, Missouri.
ACCORDING TO the author of the book ‘Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School’, all kids are smart, but they are smart in different ways. The author, TR Hoerr, further added, "Using multiple intelligences (MI) not only increases opportunities for students to learn, but also gives adults (teachers) more avenues and ways to grow professionally and personally."
Hoerr transacted the MI-based curriculum at the New City School, Missouri, developed around the theory developed by Howard Gardner. The classroom processes included the lessons based upon various intelligences like, linguistic, logical, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, spatial, inter-personal and intra-personal.
The book recommends the classroom teaching of various subjects must include some part of the lesson to develop students' sensitivities to pitch, melody, rhythm and tone.
The author suggests that a teacher with proper training and support can carry out activities related to links with the music such as:
The book recommends the classroom teaching of various subjects must include some part of the lesson to develop students' sensitivities to pitch, melody, rhythm and tone.
The author suggests that a teacher with proper training and support can carry out activities related to links with the music such as:
- Rewriting a given song's lyrics to include the vocabulary related to a curricular concept;
- Adding music to plays;
- Using the music of the period and place to teach a concept;
- Create musical mnemonics.
In India too, schools need to reorganise their curricula in the MI format to benefit students. The book, published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Virginia, can work as a good guide for the willing schools.
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