Book Talk: A Whole New Mind

In response to the opening activities, my summer job really can not be outsourced. I work for in home as a care provider, and am an employee of a Maine based company. While I am sure that it is possible for such companies to be moved over seas, I do not see this as a possibility. I'm sure that teaching could technically be "outsourced," but I feel that the teacher would need to make the choice to move to a developing country, with the intention of helping those in need. I am absolutely right brained, as I am led far more by emotion and impulse than by rational decisions.

While reading through the six steps presented within the book, I was interested but not overly engaged in the design step, yet the linguistic step would have been a favorite for me in the classroom. I love the idea of taking the first line of a novel and writing a story based on this one line. The next idea was symphony, creating a connection using something that others would not recognize. Empathy was the next category, where I toke the Multiple Intelligence and Fake Smile quizzes. Upon taking this Multiple Intelligence quiz, my top three categories were interpersonal, linguistic and intrapersonal, in that order. This is very true to previous Multiple Intelligence quizzes I have taken, and I thought the descriptions were very accurate. As for the "Fake Smile" quiz, which I thought was really cool, I identified 15 of the 20 of the smiles correctly. Very interesting!

The next step was play, which I think is great in the classroom. Students should always be permitted to play and enjoy themselves in the classroom, and teachers should be able to build this play into a great deal of lessons. The final step was spiritual, so I took the spiritual quiz. The quiz revealed that I am relatively stressed out, so I need to work on my spiritual well being.

This seems like a great book, and I would be very interested in looking into these ideas.