Educational Reform

One of my last required classes for educational certification was a Curriculum and Instruction course, and I was reluctant to take it. Fortunately, I had a wonderful instructor, who made going to class fun and interesting. She required a term paper on a topic of our choice. I went through a lot of topics, and finally found one that interested me: Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory. As I thought about what I would write, a fiction story appeared in my head and began beating its way out. When I asked the professor if she would accept a work of fiction instead of a dry scholarly paper, she kindly agreed. I hope this story serves to illustrate what MI theory is about. She gave me an "A" on the paper.Because it was written as an assignment with a specific purpose, I didn't want to have to explain the whole moonbase on a runaway moon thing, which I freely admit it has its logic problems, no matter how much I love it. So I moved them to a runaway ship. Our favorite characters are all still there.