Should teachers use MI and BT learning? Are those effective learning stages?

By: Group 6 of PETA Class
(Annas Bentari)
(Arsyiyatul Alawiyah)
(Dian Ayu Utami)
(Dian Sulistiani)

Differentiated learning can be a model of creative and effective learning in the classroom. However, what is the characteristic of differentiated learning in real? Is that like a fun and out of content learning? No, that is not at all. Currently, differentiated learning is learning with a differenced stage of students’ understanding. Differentiated learning is also how teachers give an instruction to the students to deliver a concept of lesson. Differentiated learning also can be named as strategy of learning. Teachers should know the students’ characteristics during the lesson so that teachers are able to determine the best strategy of learning and the learning process is delivered well.

Then, there are two learning styles to achieve that differentiated learning, Multiple-Intelligence (MI) and Bloom Taxonomy. Multiple Intelligence as a learning style means that the learning should cover eight intelligences of students. Teachers should have a collaborated ways of learning to teach heterogeneous students in a classroom based on those eight multiple intelligences. Moreover, teachers should know what the best model of instruction is. An example case is when a teacher tells students to read material reading of history lesson. The teacher should think more to auditory and visually students. Which one is the best, multiple intelligence learning or bloom taxonomy? That’s why teachers should be capable in understanding and read the students’ weakness or strength in learning to choose the best one.

Why do we say that teacher should be capable to choose the best strategy of those MI and BT? We may see that there are some weaknesses in implementing MI or BT in learning. One of both (MI and BT) will distract the students’ characteristic learning. Students with a particular learning will be distracted in a group learning activity. Also, they may feel a bit confused with stages learning (if we use BT). However we also should look into standard of competence that should be achieved by students. So, basically using bloom taxonomy or multiple intelligences in learning is very important. Even, students will get hard adaptation with the stages learning of MI or BT, but they will not only remember and apply what they learn in text book. They should be able in analyzing, evaluating and absolutely creating.

Here, teacher’s task is finding out the best strategy in learning process. Sometimes it will be useless when the teacher could not coordinate the strategy of MI and BT well. That’s why as the candidate of passionate teacher, we should think of our strategy to use MI and BT in our teaching by matching it through a right model of instruction.