Ch. 4: Teaching Students About MI Theory

Armstrong emphasized that “Children go to school as question marks and leave as periods,” and it is our job to answer all their questions. An MI theory should be a unit in which we first introduce what MI is and show the MI “pizza” than ask questions and relate it to people they know. I really liked the idea of having a “career day” because it would get the community involved in the learning process. With me, pursuing an English concentration, I would probably have my children write biographies on famous people that shared the same MI as them. This way they get to know someone who likes what they like. Maybe, on presentation day, the students dress up as their people and then interact with the class as a whole. The class could ask questions, etc. and for my class period, the students could truly “be” their people. Armstrong showed how interactive teaching MI can be, after all, teaching is supposed to be fun, right?