Alice L Erickson
Professor Wentworth
English 111
29 October 2012
· Incorporate MI Theory into the classroom. Teachers and students share equally important roles in creating successful students. (Gardner)
The “Banking” System discourages the growth and exploration of students. (Freire)
Schools must become more flexible, and adapt to complex student situations just as students must adapt to meet standards at school. (Gladwell)
Professor Wentworth
English 111
29 October 2012
· Incorporate MI Theory into the classroom. Teachers and students share equally important roles in creating successful students. (Gardner)
- Encourages interaction between students, learning similarly to a employee at a workplace.
- Students become active learners, and with multiple approaches they now have a variety in a school environment.
- Allows students to express their understanding of material in varies ways, and thus, providing opportunity in self-expression, and in the highest degree of critical understanding.
- Educators must make clear classroom expectations; this will help students to be organized.
The “Banking” System discourages the growth and exploration of students. (Freire)
- Depositing information into learners is useless because they become oppositional defiant when belittled.
Schools must become more flexible, and adapt to complex student situations just as students must adapt to meet standards at school. (Gladwell)
- Schools are ethically obligated to ‘loosen standards’ to provide an equal opportunity to success for all students.