Teaching to Student Strengths

The cofounder of All Kinds of Minds explains why it is important to demystify students about their abilities.

Expert practitioners shed light on how to teach to the curriculum while connecting content to students.

The greatest potential of the MI approach grows from realizing that each individual has a profile of intelligences.

Research studies show that students performed better when they were taught in ways compatible with their strengths.

Addressing the needs of Latino students means capitalizing on the assets they bring to the classroom and the community.

Assumptions about why students perform poorly often inhibit educators from acting positively.

Schoolwide strategies that build powerful student/teacher relationships lead to higher achievement.

Classroom instruction should reflect the biological imperative to learn from experience.

A growing gender gap convinced a school to gear instructional techniques to better capture the interest of boys.

To keep boys on the literacy train, we need to tap cultural and popular resources.

When a group of boys asked the literacy specialist to read their stories, a typical writing workshop it was not.

The author shares strategies for heightening boys' engagement in reading.

New findings in neuroscience reveal how people mirror one another's emotional states.

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed 14 schools in St. Bernard parish, determined educators continue the difficult work of rebuilding.