Cognition, Thinking & Understanding

Schools Need to Pay More Attention to "Intelligence in the Wild"

Traditional schools usually emphasize the kind of intelligence students need to solve clearly defined problems. By stressing this kind of "laboratory intelligence," schools typically ask students to engage in focused, systematic tasks that have unambiguous goals and a clear choice of answers: learn this list of words and how to spell them, learn who the presidents were. The tasks may be challenging, but they are challenging in a predictable way. The attention paid to standards and assessments often works to increase the emphasis on this laboratory intelligence.

The Project Zero Classroom: Views on Understanding

What do Project Zero's ideas look like in practice? This book offers perspectives by teachers and researchers, including Howard Gardner and David Perkins, on several strands of Project Zero's research. Approaching the instructional goal of teaching for understanding, this volume is filled with examples that practitioners seek to help close the idea/action gap. Any of the articles provides a basis for reflective conversations among teachers and administrators working toward using Project Zero's ideas in their own schools. ASIN: B004S69940

Project Spectrum: Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, Volume 2

This curriculum resource will enable teachers in the early primary years to apply multiple intelligences theory in their own classrooms. It provides enriching activities in a wide variety of disciplines, including mechanics and construction, movement, and music. ISBN: 978-0807737675

Project Spectrum: Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, Volume 3

This handbook provides the critical means to assess children's cognitive development in the classroom. Included are observation sheets for each of the expanded multiple intelligences and an activities calendar to help teachers to build multiple intelligences theory into their daily classroom routines. 1998, ISBN: 978-0807737682

Project Zero Frameworks for Early Childhood Education, Volume 1, Building on...

This soft-cover volume explains Gardner and Feldman's theories in accessible, nontechnical language. It provides readers with detailed descriptions of the theories in use in actual classrooms and other settings. ISBN: 978-0807737668