Early Childhood

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

The Thinking Classroom: Learning and Teaching in a Culture of Thinking

Going beyond the piecemeal approach of injecting thinking skills into existing classroom lessons or units, The Thinking Classroom shows how to transform the classroom, through a culture of thinking, into a place where the many aspects of high-level thoughts, skills, attitudes, values, and habits of mind are supported and encouraged by the learning environment. ISBN: 978-0205165087

Thinking Connections: Learning to Think and Thinking to Learn

Thinking Connections includes step-by-step instructions and practical suggestions for teaching three strategies: Mental Management: A strategy that develops an awareness of how the thinking process works and presents a three-step method to control and improve thinking for any task in any subject. Decision-Making: A strategy that presents a series of three questions to be considered and answered in order to evaluate of make thoughtful decisions in or out of the classroom.Understanding through Design: A strategy that allows students to analyze and evaluate almost anything in a systematic way in order to discover its meaning and achieve a genuine understanding of it. Thinking Connections was designed to be used across the curriculum, beginning in upper elementary levels and continuing through teacher training. ISBN: 978-0201819984

Putting Understanding Up Front

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