by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration
Yesterday our district had a professional development day on the topic of vocabulary. Some 4th grade colleagues presented to all the elementary and middle school teachers a method of introducing vocabulary that they had started last year. What they were doing was...
by Elizabeth Peterson | Arts Education and Integration, General Education Topics
There are so many natural connections between the MI theory and Arts Integration. Some of them are obvious when you consider some of the Smarts that are identified: music, kinesthetic, visual/spacial, linguistic. But the MI theory goes even further with the other...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
How do you approach teaching? When you are with students, how do you act? What do you say? Are you engaging and encouraging? Are you curt and sarcastic? Are you somewhere in between? (These are questions I ask of you and of myself…we’re in this...
by Melissa Edwards | STEAM and Technology in the Classroom
Melissa Edwards is one of my “go-to” people when it comes to purposefully using technology in the classroom. A few weeks ago we were chatting about the Multiple Intelligences, and she put a post together that included some great resources and references. ...
by Elizabeth Peterson | General Education Topics
Did the title get your attention? It should! This is just another “Woah!” that I discovered while reading Thomas Armstrong’s Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. According to Armstrong, this phrase was used years ago to describe “a...