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Sample Activity
Adult Multiple Intelligences
4. Student Responses to MI Practices: The AMI Experience (50 minutes)
- Explain that for the next 25 minutes participants will work in two or three small groups of four people each. Using Reading #7: Chapter 5, Student Responses to Multiple Intelligences (MI) Practices: The Adult Multiple Intelligences (AMI) Experience. Their task will be to discuss how students reacted to MI-inspired instruction and what actions teachers took in response.
- Post the “Discussion Questions” newsprint.
- How did students respond to MI reflections and MI-informed instruction?
- How did students respond “in context” (ABE, GED, ESOL)?
- What stands out for you about the students’ responses and how the teachers dealt with them?
- How could you prepare students for MI practices?
Discussion Questions
- Go over these questions with the group to make sure everyone understands them.
- Ask participants to move back into their same small groups. Give each group one or two sheets of newsprint and a set of markers. Allow 25 minutes for the groups to:
- Refer to Reading #7: Chapter 5, “Student Responses to MI Practices: The AMI Experience” and Reading #6: “Two AMI Teachers’ Perspectives: Multiple Ways Around Resistance Through MI.”
- Discuss the first three questions.
- Write answers to the fourth question on their sheet of newsprint. Answers can come either from the readings or their own ideas.
- After 25 minutes, have the groups post their newsprint sheets around the room . Then allow five minutes for a silent gallery reading of these analyses. Reconvene the group and ask participants to comment on the ideas for preparing students for MI practices that they read in the newsprints .