San Antonio College Library

From the Publisher: A brilliant state-of-the-art report on how the landmark theory of multiple intelligences is radically changing our understanding of education and human development. Since its original description in Frames of Mind (1983, 1993), the theory of multiple intelligences has taken its place as one of the seminal ideas of the twentieth century. Further explicated in Gardner's 1993 book, Multiple Intelligences, these ideas continue to attract...

It explores the implications of this theory on teaching and learning, and looks at ways in which teachers and administrators can structure curriculum, lessons, assessment, and school culture to account for the diverse learning styles and talents of students with different intelligence configurations (multiple intelligence). To do so, it takes viewers inside a school where MI is incorporated into teaching, classrooms, and the community. "How Are Kids...

"One of the greatest challenges faced by every school and every educator is encouraging and accommodating a full range of student diversity while simultaneously promoting a uniformly high level of academic achievement for all students. Two powerful learning models -- multiple intelligences and learning styles -- provide us with the best means of rising to this challenge. Yet each model has particular strengths and weaknesses that directly correspond...

Featuring 100 well-loved and easily available children's books, "Starting with Stories" has more than 1,200 activities to actively engage every learning style. This literature-based resource book combines quality children's books, learning centers, and multiple intelligences to give teachers a comprehensive, creative curriculum.

"Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences has been hailed as perhaps the most profound insight into education since the work of Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget, and, even earlier, John Dewey. Now in The Disciplined Mind, Gardner pulls together the threads of his previous works in a major new synthesis aimed at parents, educators, and the general public alike. The Disciplined Mind looks beyond such parochial issues as charters, vouchers, unions,...

This book outlines how educators can design meaningful learning experiences that will address standards and utilize cooperative learning, brain research, and the Internet to effectively develop a student's ability to thrive in the twenty-first century's workforce.