Chapter 7

For the most part this chapter is about the environment that is created within the classroom. It tells us that the classroom can be divided up into multiple intelligence activity centers for the students. When you create a classroom that is organized and dedicated to all of the intelligences, we are able to create a learning environment that helps all of the learners instead of the majority. When you help all of the learners it makes learning easier and it makes your job easier. We should allow students to pick the centers that they want to go to that way we can see what their strengths are. This chapter also talks about the four quadrant activity centers and the function of each one.

My group loves this chapter and the thought of creating activity centers, but we do have a few problems with it. This seems to be a good thing for the most part, however, high school students don't spend as much time with their teachers. This would effect the teacher from knowing what the student likes. It seems to be more of a benefit to a middle school or grammar school. The teacher is with the student most of the day and is able to see more of an improvement. We like this idea, but we think that it serves more justice with younger students! This chapter also describes very clearly on how to set up the classroom and we all agree that if needed to reference the idea then this book would be the one to look at. It is very helpful in telling you how to achieve the goal at hand. We also even like the fact that groups can be switched up that way students don't get bored and they have other people that they can work with. The last thing that we commented on was the fact that by creating multiple intelligence areas you allow the student to get comfortable and that allows them to produce higher quality work. That is a definite upside to having the activity centers. We all know that when we are comfortable we do things better than we would if we were stressed. Overall, it was a really informative chapter!