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Summary
Summary
Transform your classroom into a community of active learners by integrating performance assessments into your curriculum. Performance-Based Learning for the Multiple Intelligences Classroom is the ultimate handbook for assessing student learning through performance learning tasks.
This rich resource provides practical plans for theme-based activities that promote learning through doing. Each activity incorporates a wide range of tasks and skills across multiple content areas and can be modified for students of different abilities and grade levels. The book also illustrates how to make activities more meaningful by including parents, tapping community and Internet resources, and requiring students to engage in a structured reflection process.
With a focus on the entire learning task-from prompt to self-reflection and assessment-Performance-Based Learning for the Multiple Intelligences Classroom offers a full implementation plan for putting your students on the path to lifelong, hands-on learning.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments |
Rationale |
Introduction |
1 Introduction to Performance Learning |
Part I Basic Performances |
2 Rotting Peels and Cores |
3 Sound Bodies for Growing Minds |
4 Learning Brains and Music Strains |
5 Making Sense of Stories |
Part II Intermediate Performances |
6 "...To Form a More Perfect Classroom" |
7 Cruising the Cortex: Sightseeing for Smarts |
8 Perfectly Proportioned |
Part III Advanced Performances |
9 Patterning Neurons to Pattern Pictures |
10 Half-Life in World Life |
11 The Heart-Smart Gourmet |
12 A Special Holiday: AttaGram Day |
Bibliography |
Index |