Celebrating Every Learner: Activities and Strategies for Creating a Multiple Intelligences Classroom

✍ Scribed by Thomas R. Hoerr, Sally Boggeman, Christine Wallach, The New City School

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom useThis important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms. Offers a treasury of easily implemented activities for engaging all students' multiple intelligences, from the New City School, a leading elementary school at the forefront of MI educationProvides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroomIncludes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroomHoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
1 The Interpersonal Intelligence......Page 24
2 The Intrapersonal Intelligence......Page 58
3 The BodilyKinesthetic Intelligence......Page 92
4 The Linguistic Intelligence......Page 122
5 The LogicalMathematical Intelligence......Page 154
6 The Musical Intelligence......Page 188
7 The Spatial Intelligence......Page 214
8 The Naturalist Intelligence......Page 242
9 Different Intelligences Are an Aspect of Diversity......Page 274
10 Learning Through Simulations......Page 278
11 Assessing Through PEPs (Projects, Exhibitions, Presentations)......Page 284
12 Assessment at New City School......Page 288
Children’s Resources......Page 266
Teachers’ Resources......Page 269
Bibliography......Page 320
About the Authors......Page 323
The New City School New City School Mission Statement......Page 329
Index......Page 331
13 Learning Centers in the Kindergarten Classroom......Page 298
14 Genuine Understanding......Page 302
15 Communicating About MI......Page 308
16 Getting Started in the Classroom with MI......Page 314