Title:
Celebrating every learner : activities and strategies for creating a multiple intelligences classroom
Publication Information:
New York : Jossey-Bass, c2010
Physical Description:
xv, 320 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
ISBN:
9780470563861
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Summary
Summary
Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use
This 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 education Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletterAuthor Notes
Thomas R. Hoerr, Ph.D. is the Head of School at the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the author of Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School, The Art of School Leadership, and School Leadership for the Future, as well as many articles and book chapters.
Sally Boggeman, Christine Wallach , and all of the other contributors are the dedicated teachers of the New City School.
Table of Contents
| ForewordHoward Gardner |
| IntroductionTom Hoerr |
| Part 1 The Multiple Intelligences |
| Chapter 1 The Interpersonal Intelligence |
| Web of the Interpersonal Intelligence |
| The Interpersonal IntelligenceLaurie Falk |
| Lesson Plans |
| Picture This |
| A House We Built |
| Making Museums |
| Getting to Know You |
| Masai Jewelry |
| Rainforest Simulation Game |
| Gold Rush Inventions |
| Unfairness on Purpose |
| Activities to Support the Interpersonal Intelligence |
| Identifying the Interpersonal Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 2 The Intrapersonal Intelligence |
| Web of the Intrapersonal Intelligence |
| Intrapersonal is the Key to SuccessTom Hoerr |
| Lesson Plans |
| Me Bags |
| I Am |
| Content of Their Character |
| Goal Setting |
| Autobiography: My Story |
| Letter to Myself |
| What I Believe |
| Simile for Me |
| Activities to Support the Intrapersonal Intelligence |
| Identifying the Intrapersonal Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 3 The Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence |
| Web of the Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence |
| The B-K EverydayPat Nuernberger and Tommi Rogers and Lauren McKenna |
| Lesson Plans |
| Everybody's Moving |
| Express Yourself |
| Continental Twister |
| Sensing Our Bodies |
| Literature Live |
| Prepositional Charades |
| Disabilities Simulation |
| Living Museum |
| Activities to Support the Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence |
| Identifying the Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 4 The Linguistic Intelligence |
| Web of the Linguistic Intelligence |
| The Multiple Intelligences LibraryJoe Corbett and Jessica Brod Millner |
| Lesson Plans |
| Word Work |
| Poetry |
| Spanish Scavenger Hunt |
| Book Reports the MI Way |
| Sincerely Yours: Parts of a Letter |
| Living History |
| Extra, Extra, Read All About It |
| Literature Responses |
| Activities to Support the Linguistic Intelligence |
| Identifying the Linguistic Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 5 The Logical-Mathematical Intelligence |
| Web of the Logical-Mathematical Intelligence |
| The Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: Identification and ImplementationChanaya Jacobs and Claire Reinbold |
| Lesson Plans |
| Numbers |
| Measurement Drawing |
| Scaling the Miles |
| Mathematical Masterpieces |
| Civil War Murals |
| Speed Demons |
| Everything and the Net |
| Restaurant Project |
| Activities to Support the Logical-Mathematical Intelligence |
| Identifying the Logical-Mathematical Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 6 The Musical Intelligence |
| Web of the Musical Intelligence |
| Minding the MusicBen Griffiths |
| Lesson Plans |
| Digestion Song |
| Caterpillars to Butterfly |
| Human Rhythm |
| Making Music |
| Poetry in Sounds |
| Literary Soundtrack |
| A Record of Time |
| Get the Beat |
| Activities to Support the Musical Intelligence |
| Identifying the Musical Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 7 The Spatial Intelligence |
| Web of the Spatial Intelligence |
| Spatial Intelligence: Through the Mind's EyeMonette Gooch Smith |
| Lesson Plans |
| Painting the O'Keefe Way |
| Dream On! Designing Your Ideal Room |
| Aurora Borealis |
| Shrink Me |
| Self Portrait: I See Me, You See Me |
| Native American Story Teller Dolls |
| Shadow Puppets |
| Colonial Portraits |
| Activities to Support the Spatial Intelligence |
| Identifying the Spatial Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Chapter 8 The Naturalist Intelligence |
| Web of the Naturalist Intelligence |
| MI, Science, and the Naturalist IntelligenceEric Eskelsen |
| Lesson Plans |
| Shadows |
| A Closer Look at Trees |
| Pollination |
| Unnatural Walk |
| Point This Way |
| Mystery Photo |
| Activities to Support the Musical Intelligence |
| Identifying the Musical Intelligence in Your Students |
| Children's Resources |
| Teachers' Resources |
| Part II Putting It All Together with the Multiple Intelligences |
| Chapter 9 Different Intelligences Are an Aspect of DiversitySheryl Reardon |
| Chapter 10 Learning Through SimulationsSusie Burge |
| Chapter 11 Assessing Through PEPs (Projects, Exhibitions, Presentations)Julie Stevens |
| Chapter 12 AssessmentPat Nuernberger |
| Chapter 13 Learning Centers in the Kindergarten ClassroomMary Daly |
| Chapter 14 Genuine UnderstandingTom Hoerr |
| Part III Multiple Intelligences, Parents and Teachers |
| Chapter 15 Communicating About MIBetsy Blankenship |
| Chapter 16 Getting Started in the Classroom with MIChristine Wallach |
| Bibliography |
| About the Authors |
| The New City School |
| Index |
