Cognition, Thinking & Understanding

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

Gifted Children: Myths and Realities

In this fascinating book, Ellen Winner uses case studies and the latest biological and psychological evidence to explore nine myths about giftedness. Considering the role schools play in fostering exceptional abilities, the author castigates schools for wasting resources and advocates elevating standards for all children while focusing gifted education on those with extreme abilities. ISBN: 978-0465017591

Smart Schools: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child

In this book, David Perkins draws on over twenty years of research which indicates that students from the first grade through college often have only the most superficial kind of knowledge even after considerable instruction in a subject. Here he reveals some commonly misguided strategies students use in trying to understand a topic, and why traditional-teaching approaches often fail. ISBN-13: 978-0028740188

Putting Understanding Up Front

A simple four-part framework gives teachers a language and strategy for enhancing their efforts to teach for greater understanding.