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

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

<p>Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use</p> <p>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. <i>Celebrating Every Learner</i> 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.</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom</li> <li>Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom</li> <li>Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for <i>Educational Leadership</i> as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter</li> </ul>