Special Education MI Inservice Program
How the Program Works
A clear path from professional learning to classroom application, reflection, and mentor review.
Program purpose
This inservice program is designed to help educators develop practical lesson-planning skills using Multiple Intelligences, cooperative learning, and cross-age tutoring. The original program allows participants to select projects and work with an inservice mentor to determine the amount of credit to pursue.
How participation works
- Select your learning goals. Review the project choices and choose work that is relevant to your classroom or professional role.
- Complete the selected projects. Follow the instructions on the Projects page and keep evidence of your work.
- Apply the learning. Whenever practical, try the strategy or lesson with students and record what happened.
- Reflect. Describe what students learned, what worked, what did not, and what you would change next time.
- Submit your work to your mentor. The mentor reviews the completed projects and records the approved inservice points.
- Complete the credit process. The original program states that as many as 60 inservice points may be earned for "Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom." The actual credit awarded is determined through the applicable mentor/provider process.
Modernized submission guidance: Electronic documents, PDFs, links, photographs of student work, lesson plans, reflections, and other appropriate evidence may be used when accepted by the mentor/provider.
Evidence of learning
A strong project should show more than completion. Where appropriate, include the objective, strategy used, evidence of student learning or participation, reflection, and a plan for future use.