What is Teaching for Successful Intelligence?
Teaching for successful intelligence involves a way of looking at the teaching-learning process that broadens the kinds of activities and assessments teachers traditionally do. Many good teachers “teach for successful intelligence” spontaneously. But, for one reason or another, most do not. Teaching for successful intelligence involves, at minimum, using a set of prompts that encourages students to engage in memory learning as well as analytical, creative, and practical learning. The key ideas are these: Key 1: Teaching for Memory Learning Most conventional teaching is teaching for memory learning. Teaching for successful intelligence does not ask teachers to stop what they already are doing. Rather, it asks teachers to build on it. Teaching for memory is the foundation for all other teaching, because students cannot think critically (or any other way) about what they know if they do not know anything. Teaching for memory basically involves assisting or assessing students’ memory of th
