Tweet 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 centered around Robert Marzano’s teachings from his book Building Background Knowledge for […]
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Tweet 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 Smarts: logical, naturalistic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. However, even these smarts are based […]
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Tweet 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 together, after all. 😉 ) In the book I […]
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Tweet 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. So, if you are interested in spending some time clicking through and […]
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Tweet 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 student who showed little promise or potential in the classroom but was a real achiever outside of […]
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Tweet I have a doodler in my classroom. He is a chatty one too! He’d rather doodle than do, well, any school work that’s for sure. He likes to practice new methods he’s learned in art class and sketch out a video game scenario or two. And, truth be told, he’s pretty good. But yesterday, […]
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Tweet In order to get free shipping on Amazon, I decided to buy a book about the multiple intelligences since they are so related to arts integration, and it turned out to be a very good move. Thomas Armstrong’s Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom is a great read and I am learning and reflecting a […]
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Tweet Ah, the Multiple Intelligences! I am excited to be spending the rest of the month reflecting on these. The MI theory fits so well into the practice of integrating the arts. It suggests that each of us has our own way of being smart: a combination of eight intelligences. As learners, it is important that […]
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