As talked about through many theories on education, creating a good system for classroom management is impossible. However, MI theory has some good ways that it can tie in and become more effective by targeting everyone’s intelligences.
Although I felt like the book was stretching for ideas on how to target all eight intelligences when grabbing the attention of the class, I do understand the usefulness of reaching out to different learning styles. There were a few examples that the book explained for settling a class down, or getting started, that I didn’t think would be appropriate in the long run. First of all, although I think these methods would attract the attention of various learners it is exactly that attraction that usually causes thoughts to wander, and students will begin yelling out questions, discussing possibilities of what the teacher is trying to accomplish, etc. and the class might not end up quieting down for some time afterwards. I do believe that there are ways to transition and class and target multiple learning types at once, but I didn’t think that the book gave strong enough examples, and frankly the ones they did give I had seen used and failed in a classroom.
In my opinion, the best way to work with MI theory and transitioning the students would to be to come up with a way that uses multiple learning styles in one method. For example, in order to settle students you could play a music, have students tap a beat, and have the students be responsible as a whole class for making sure everyone is prepared to start. This could connect to musical, spatial, verbal, interpersonal, and kinesthetic learning. This method would seem much more clear, engaging and powerful than just using one type of learning style to target and I feel like the book missed the importance of that.
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