Chapter 12 MI: MI Theory and Cognitive Skills

This chapter discussed how you need to teach students to learn how to learn using their multiple intelligences. If you teach a musical student to learn their spelling words using a rhythm, or having kinesthetic learners putting movements to their spelling words, then they are most likely going to remember them later on down the road. I can say that after having watched the movie “Bruce Almighty”, every time since then, when I spell the word beautiful I say it b-e-a-u-tiful, because I heard Jim Carey say it in the movie. Students all learn in different ways, which means the way that they commit things to memories is going to be different as well. It is the educator’s job to be sure to hone in on this different intelligences, so that the students will hold the knowledge for as long as possible.