Celebrate Leadership: Lessons for Middle School Students

Enriching, engaging, rigorous, meaningful—these are the learning opportunities that are interwoven in Celebrate Leadership: Lessons for Middle School Students. Meyer and Glock use the ideas of Howard Gardner as a guide in designing curriculum and assessments that will engage learners. Constructing learning experiences that are based on the multiple intelligences and the standards provides all students with the opportunity to be successful. When it comes to assessment of that learning, educators can use the same concept in designing authentic situations, which the authors call celebrations of learning. Celebrate Leadership has step-by-step procedures, planning sheets for teachers, and all the materials that students need. The teaching and learning culminate in a "Night of the Notables" celebration, with an audience that includes peers, parents, and community members. Meyer and Glock present a program that is easy for the instructor to implement and worthwhile, rewarding, and fun for students.

At various times, classroom teachers find themselves wondering if students are grasping the content. In this publication, the authors use the ideas of Howard Gardner as a guide in designing curriculum and assessments that will engage learners. This book has step-by-step procedures, planning sheets for teachers, and all the necessary reproducible that students need.

Maggie Meyer has spent more than 35 years in education and is currently working as an enrichment specialist. She has extensive experience with multiple intelligences, community problem solving, watershed education, and developing gifted curriculum. Jenna Glock has been an educator in the public education setting for more than 15 years. She has facilitated a variety of workshops and presentations in the areas of environmental education, multiple intelligences, naturalist intelligence, and community problem solving.