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Conference on Teaching Excellence

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Get up-to-date on recent revelations about best practices in the classroom, how to make them routine in every grade and subject, and how to scale them systemwide. 

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September 1997 | Volume 55 | Number 1

Teaching for Multiple Intelligences


Feature Articles

The First Seven. . . and the Eighth: A Conversation with Howard Gardner

Kathy Checkley

Gardner reviews the many ways humans can display intelligence.

Variations on a Theme—How Teachers Interpret MI Theory

Linda Campbell

From interdisciplinary themes to apprenticeships, schools around the country respond to MI theory in multiple formats.

Multiple Intelligences as a Partner in School Improvement

Howard Gardner

MI alone cannot spur educational reform, Gardner says. Here he critiques and praises approaches for implementing MI theory.

Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

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.

Where Do the Learning Theories Overlap?

Pat Burke Guild

Visit classrooms that practice learning styles, brain-based education, or MI theory. Will you see the differences in practice?

The GREENing of Learning: Using the Eighth Multiple Intelligence

Maggie Meyer

Sixth graders monitor aquatic organisms in a curriculum that piques the naturalist intelligence.

A Think Tank Cultivates Kids

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.

The Summer Stars Program

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.

Frog Ballets and Musical Fractions

Thomas R. Hoerr

At New City Elementary, a schoolwide MI approach brightens everything from staff development to communication with parents.

A Multiple Intelligences Inventory

Veronica Borruso Emig

A high school teacher keeps track of how her lessons enlist the multiple intelligences.

From Crockett to Tubman: Investigating Historical Perspectives

Wendy Ecklund Lambert

High school students choose projects that complement their strengths and deepen their views of history.

Three Billy Goats and Gardner

Gayle Emery Merrefield

Preschoolers with learning disabilities profit from an approach that deemphasizes limits and focuses on strengths.

Multiple Intelligences Meet Standards

Jan Greenhawk

Teachers in a Maryland elementary school coordinate MI theory with the statewide assessment requirements.

In Australia / Multiple Intelligences in Multiple Settings

Wilma Vialle

A survey of 30 schools shows that some classrooms teach to the intelligence and others teach through them.

In New South Wales / The Brain-Flex Project

Christopher Bounds and Lyn Harrison

From horse dressage to airplane design—these independent projects spark secondary students' interests and intelligences.

Using Multiple Intelligence Theory to Identify Gifted Children

Carol Reid and Brenda Romanoff

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district assesses children's abilities by observing children select strategies and solve open-ended problems.

Special Topics

Special Topic / Strategies for Success: A Conversation with Ron Brandt

Carolyn R. Pool

From finding writers for Educational Leadership to exercising his own educational leadership, Ron Brandt applied a progressive philosophy throughout his career.

Special Topic / An American in Kazakstan: Life in a Fish Bowl

Shanta Swezy

A former Peace Corps volunteer reflects on the traditions and challenges of school life in Kazakstan.

Departments

Web Wonders

Carolyn R. Pool




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