Special Education MI Inservice Program
Multiple Intelligences Theory
A practical inservice program for exploring multiple intelligences, lesson planning, cooperative learning, and cross-age tutoring.
How to use this program today: Begin with the learning goal, then choose the ideas and strategies that genuinely support that goal. Multiple Intelligences is used here as a planning lens, not as a system for labeling students or assigning them a fixed learning type.
1. How the Program Works
Understand the inservice process, project choices, mentor review, and credit structure.
2. What's MI?
Learn the original Multiple Intelligences framework and how it can be used responsibly in lesson planning.
3. Five Powerful Needs
Explore the five needs included in the original program and connect them to belonging, autonomy, engagement, and classroom relationships.
5. MI Lesson Plans
Use sample planning structures and develop lessons from clear objectives.
6. Cross-Age Tutoring
Plan purposeful tutoring experiences with clear roles, preparation, and assessment.
7. Cooperative Learning
Use group structures that include positive interdependence and individual accountability.
8. Lessons by Category
Jump to the broader lesson-plan collections in the 21st Century Schoolhouse.
Important: This program preserves its original focus on Multiple Intelligences while updating the instructional guidance for today's educators. Students should not be assigned to a single "type" of learner, and every lesson does not need an activity for every intelligence.