Full Description
Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences in 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 implications for pedagogy, team-teaching, student strengths, curriculum, assessment, community involvement, and diverse classroom models. The authors devote one chapter to each of the eight intelligences. They define 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.
Contents
Introduction1. 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.
