TAKING TRIARCHIC TEACHING TO CLASSROOMS: GIVING EVERYBODY A FAIR CHANCE

This study throws light into Sternberg’s theory of Successful Intelligence and its classroom implications. Some students learn well when taught in conventional ways, but others do not. They may be intelligent but not in the usual way. As the goal of teaching should be to reach all students, when we do not reach to all students, we risk creating self-fulfilling prophecies that doom certain students to mediocrity who could be good or even excellent achievers. But as educators, teachers want to maximize the probability of each student’s success in school. It is in this context that Triarchic Teaching , an approach for teaching successful Intelligence finds relevance. This approach helps the teachers to achieve this outcome by structuring wide range of activities so that students have a chance to try different patterns of abilities, discover their strongest abilities, and master as much as they can or all of them. The application of Triarchic teaching in classrooms thus helps to improve analytic, creative, and practical abilities in students thereby enabling them to be a success both in their academic and real life.