September 1997 | Volume 55 | Number 1
Teaching for Multiple Intelligences
Feature Articles
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Kathy Checkley
Gardner reviews the many ways humans can display intelligence.
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Linda Campbell
From interdisciplinary themes to apprenticeships, schools around the country respond to MI theory in multiple formats.
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Howard Gardner
MI alone cannot spur educational reform, Gardner says. Here he critiques and praises approaches for implementing MI theory.
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Harvey Silver, Richard Strong and Matthew Perini
How one expresses one's intelligences is a matter of learning style, these authors contend, and explore a way to mesh the theories.
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Pat Burke Guild
Visit classrooms that practice learning styles, brain-based education, or MI theory. Will you see the differences in practice?
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Maggie Meyer
Sixth graders monitor aquatic organisms in a curriculum that piques the naturalist intelligence.
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Jean Sausele Knodt
K–6 students at this school construct geodesic domes, use microscopes, and draft blueprints—to name a few of the activities available in their MI discovery room.
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Mary Lou Cantrell, Susan Austin Ebdon, Russell Firlik, Diane Johnson and Dianne Rearick
How to plan a week-long summer camp that attracts kids who want to flex their talents.
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Thomas R. Hoerr
At New City Elementary, a schoolwide MI approach brightens everything from staff development to communication with parents.
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Veronica Borruso Emig
A high school teacher keeps track of how her lessons enlist the multiple intelligences.
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Wendy Ecklund Lambert
High school students choose projects that complement their strengths and deepen their views of history.
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Gayle Emery Merrefield
Preschoolers with learning disabilities profit from an approach that deemphasizes limits and focuses on strengths.
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Jan Greenhawk
Teachers in a Maryland elementary school coordinate MI theory with the statewide assessment requirements.
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Wilma Vialle
A survey of 30 schools shows that some classrooms teach to the intelligence and others teach through them.
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Christopher Bounds and Lyn Harrison
From horse dressage to airplane design—these independent projects spark secondary students' interests and intelligences.
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Carol Reid and Brenda Romanoff
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district assesses children's abilities by observing children select strategies and solve open-ended problems.
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Special Topics
Carolyn R. Pool
From finding writers for Educational Leadership to exercising his own educational leadership, Ron Brandt applied a progressive philosophy throughout his career.
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Shanta Swezy
A former Peace Corps volunteer reflects on the traditions and challenges of school life in Kazakstan.
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