MI Chapter 10

This chapter discussed how to integrate MI Theory into your assessments. This chapter made a good point by saying if we are going to teach using the MI Theory we can’t just drop it when it comes to test time, we must integrate it here as well. The MI Theory argues that assessments must be authentic, meaning that students should be able to apply the information in a real world context. I totally agree that authenticity is a necessity, not just when assessing using MI Theory, but with any assessment in general. What I learned from this chapter is that observing my students can be the easiest and most effective way to assess them. Through observation I can see my students working with the information in their natural environment, and in real-world contexts. Another big thing that I learned from this chapter is that if you teach using MI Theory using the eight different intelligences, you can also assess that way. You can format your questions to fit each of the eight intelligences and students can choose how they would like to respond. I like this idea, however I feel that it would be very complicated because you have have to grade each one differently. What this chapter has taught me as a teacher is that if I am going to teach using MI Theory that I must assess using MI Theory as well. If I don’t assess that way, but teach that way, it will be confusing to my students and I won’t get accurate results on assessments. As a teacher I will also have to make sure that my assessments are authentic, and include questions that appeal to all intelligences.