Early Childhood

Inteligencias Multiples: La teoria en la practica

Desde la publicación de Los Marcos de la Mente: La Teoría de las Inteligencias Múltiples, miles de educadores, padres, y los investigadores han explorado las implicaciones prácticas de las Inteligencias Múltiples (MI) la teoríala noción de gran alcance que están separados de las capacidades humanas, que van desde la inteligencia musical a la inteligencia involucrados en la comprensión de uno mismo. Inteligencias múltiples: la teoría en la práctica reúne publicó anteriormente y obra original de Howard Gardner y sus colegas de Project Zero para ofrecer una imagen coherente de lo que hemos aprendido acerca de las aplicaciones educativas de la teoría de MI de proyectos en la escuela y la investigación formal. ISBN-13: 978-8449318061

Visible Thinking (Article)

Teaching for Understanding with Technology

Teaching for Understanding with Technology shows how teachers can maximize the potential of new technologies to advance student learning and achievement. Using the popular Teaching for Understanding framework, teachers can guide learners to think, analyze, solve problems, and make meaning of what they've learned. The book offers advice on tapping into a rich array of new technologies such as web information, online curricular information, and professional networks to research teaching topics, set learning goals, create innovative lesson plans, assess student understanding, and develop communities of learners. ISBN: 978-0787972301

Questions for Tuning Up a Lesson Plan

These questions will help you to "tune up" an existing lesson plan to focus more on goals, performances of understanding, and assessment. You can view an outline of these questions below. View the full document by clicking the download link in the right-hand column.

Part 1: Focus on Goals and Performances

I. About the Understanding Goals

II. About Performances of Understanding

III. About the Match between Goals and Performances

Part 2: Focus on Assessment

I. Why will you assess? Criteria for understanding.

II. When will you assess? Opportunities to do an "understanding check"

III. How will you assess? A variety of strategies for giving feedback

IV. Who will do the assessing? A variety of perspectives

Multiple Intelligences and Adult Literacy: A Sourcebook for Practitioners

I must admit that I had never thought about uses of MI ideas with adult learners who were trying to master the basic literacies....Thanks to the pioneering work of [the authors], and AMI teacher-researchers, we now know that, in capable hands, the idea of multiple intelligences has a generative role to play in the education of adults."From the foreword by Howard Gardner This practical sourcebook includes: MI Basics-providing educators with the basics of MI theory: what it is and how it can inform practice. MI Reflections-looking at the successes and challenges involved in using MI theory in adult education, including an array of activities for exploring MI theory with students. MI-Inspired Instruction-discussing how MI theory can be used to develop learning experiences and instructional strategies that tap into students intelligence strengths. MI-Inspired Lessons-presenting concrete examples of how AMI teachers translated MI theory into lessons and activities for language arts, learning English, writing, reading for meaning, math, science, and more. Discussion Questions for individual and group reflection. Classroom Experiences for trying out ideas in your own settings. ISBN: 978-0807743461