Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences

The authors demonstrate how to develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students and provide a six-step process for developing thematic learning units.

Train your staff to make natural, holistic, and relevant connections through the use of multiple intelligences. This training package includes -- Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences -- Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences Training Manual -- Block Scheduling: A Collection of Articles -- Making Sense of Curriculum

Formerly a SkyLight publication. This unique and practical book combines Howard Gardner's eight multiple intelligences and Robin Fogarty's ten curriculum integration models to develop activities for building teams, exploring how to put power into themes, and ways to thread life skills through the subject matter content. Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads provides educators with creative methods for applying the multiple ways of knowing, learning, and assessing.

This practical guide helps explain a simple five-step process that helps educators integrate the two approaches into current lessons, or combine them into new and powerful lessons and units. Lots of classroom examples, activities and templates help identify style and intelligence profiles, and illustrates how to design curriculum.

Following the pioneering work of James Beane and Heidi Jacobs, there is growing interest in the area of integrative teaching. Contributors to this edited volume include K-12 principals and teachers, as well as university professors recently involved in the implementation of integrative teaching.

In the decades since it was first introduced, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences (MI) theory has transformed how people think about learning the world over. Educators using the theory have achieved remarkable success in helping all students, including those who learn in nontraditional ways, to navigate school (and life outside it) with confidence and success. Within the context of classroom instruction, no author besides Gardner has done more to popularize MI theory than Thomas Armstrong, whose best seller Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom has become a bona fide education classic in its own right. This expanded fourth edition provides educators at all levels with everything they need to apply MI theory to curriculum development, lesson planning, assessment, special education, cognitive skills, career development, educational policy, and more. In addition to the many strategies, templates, and examples that have made Armstrong's book so enduringly popular, this edition is updated to examine how emerging neurodiversity research, trends toward greater instructional personalization, and rapidly evolving virtual learning tools have affected the use of MI theory to enhance student achievement. It also includes brand-new lesson plans aligned to nationwide standards and a revised list of resources for further study.

This updated resource offers ten models that allow teachers to work together to create learner-centered classrooms by grouping elements from various content areas into a coherent, standards-based curriculum.