Teaching And Learning Through Multiple Intelligences - 3rd edition

Summary: Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences is an outstanding resource that offers expert analysis of Gardner's "Theory of Multiple Intelligences"--and the knowledge to extend this theory to effective classroom practice.

Broad-based and comprehensive, this text describes applications for pedagogy, team teaching, student strengths, curriculum, assessment, community involvement, and diverse classroom models. The authors devote one chapter ...show moreto each of the eight intelligences. They define the intelligence, provide a checklist for identifying it, suggest environmental considerations, and offer related teaching strategies. Additional chapters survey Gardner's recent work on teaching for understanding, performance-based assessment, and model MI school programs and student outcomes.
Features :

• Offers strategies to develop students' eight intelligences and to teach basic skills through multiple modes.
• Includes ready-to-use lesson plans and classroom assessment tools.
• Describes ways to teach for in-depth student understanding.
• Includes Gardner's full range of identified intelligences--including the naturalist intelligence.

• New Chapter 1, "The Influence of MI Theory on Teachers' Beliefs and Classroom Practices," reviews cases and research on student intelligence and shows how these beliefs can change educational goals and curriculum.
• Chapters 2-8 on individual intelligences have been revised with new technology implications, references, and instructional strategies bringing these up to state-of-the-art practice.
• Chapter on curriculum development includes more examples of K-12 curricula (Ch. 9).
• Chapter on assessment has been enhanced with three new approaches to better illustrate current practice (Ch. 10).
• "Lessons Learned" surveys new research on one hundred K-12 MI school programs with student achievement on standardized tests to discuss achievement gains (Ch. 11).

Edition/Copyright: 3RD 04
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Published: 04/25/2003

View Author Bio

Campbell, Linda : Antioch University

Campbell, Bruce : Marysville School District

Dickinson, Dee : New Horizons for Learning, Seattle

View Table of Contents

Introduction: Many Kinds of Intelligence.

1. A Way with Words: Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence.
2. The Calculating Mind: Logical-Mathematical Intelligence.
3. Moving to Learn: Kinesthetic Intelligence.
4. Everyone Is an Artist: Visual-Spatial Intelligence.
5. Tuning In: Musical Intelligence.
6. Understanding One Another: Interpersonal Intelligence.
7. The World Within: Intrapersonal Intelligence.
8. The World Around Us: Naturalist Intelligence.
9. Curriculum Development through the Multiple Intelligences.
10. Dissolving the Boundaries: Assessment That Enhances Learning.
11. Lessons Learned.

Permissions.
Subject Index.
Name Index.

Related materials for Teaching And Learning Through Multiple Intelligences »