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Celebrating Every Learner: Activities and Strategies for Creating a Multiple Intelligences Classroom

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Product Description Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms. Offers a treasury of easily implemented activities for engaging all students' multiple intelligences, from the New City School, a leading elementary school at the forefront of MI education Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter From the Inside Flap The New City School in St. Louis, Missouri, has been successfully using Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence (MI) model for more than twenty years to provide joyful and challenging educational experiences to children ages 3 through grade 6. Celebrating Every Learner describes how tailoring lessons to students' intelligences—Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Musical, Spatial, and Naturalist—creates a deeper level of understanding, so that children can use what they've learned in new and different situations. In addition to the treasury of classroom activities, lesson plans, and assessment tools, Celebrating Every Learner contains valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom. Praise for Celebrating Every Learner "Celebrating Every Learner takes students beyond the 'preparing for the test' mentality that is so common in education today, and engages students in learning experiences that have intrinsic meaning and a positive impact." —Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., author, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, Third Edition "Every day New City teachers model collaboration and take the MI Theory to real classroom application with outstanding results. Teachers will benefit immensely from this book, particularly the interpersonal and intrapersonal sections. The faculty of the New City School is once again blazing the path that the rest of us need to follow." —Greg Miller, Ph.D., director of Graduate Studies, University of Rio Grande "Celebrating Every Learner is a valuable tool that offers practical ideas and strategies I can apply directly in my classroom. This book offers fresh, thoughtful perspectives on teaching and learning, and guidance on the path to providing meaningful learning experiences to students that will prepare them with necessary skills for the 21st century." —Katherine Gasper, M.Ed., teacher at the Saltonstall School in Salem, Massachusetts From the Back Cover The New City School in St. Louis, Missouri, has been successfully using Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence (MI) model for more than twenty years to provide joyful and challenging educational experiences to children ages 3 through grade 6. Celebrating Every Learner describes how tailoring lessons to students' intelligences—Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Musical, Spatial, and Naturalist—creates a deeper level of understanding, so that children can use what they've learned in new and different situations. In addition to the treasury of classroom activities, lesson plans, and assessment tools, Celebrating Every Learner contains valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom. Praise for Celebrating Every Learner "Celebrating Every Learner takes students beyond the 'preparing for the test' mentali