Chapter 12: MI Theory and Cognitive Skills

This chapter addresses how the MI theory should be used to memorize material. The concept of a bad memory is too broad. A student can have a poor memory in one intelligence area and a good memory when it comes to material learned in a manner consistent with their strongest intelligence. The part of this chapter that makes me worried about the future of America is that our problem solving skills are below that of other developed nations. To me that is a much more important test than math skills, or reading abilities. Being able to problem solve is essentially being able to think. It doesn’t matter what intelligence you want to use to be able to think through problems, but you have to be able to think through a problem. As a teacher this will be my greatest goal and challenge. I want to teach students to use their heads, I do not care what type of learner they are they need to be able to think and articulate those thoughts in some manner.