Overview
This creative guidebook demonstrates for educators how to use new research about multiple intelligences to help students learn. Sample units emphasize how to move students' thinking away from rote memorization of facts and toward understanding the dynamic relationships between those facts and the various processes involved. Lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school classes provide specific techniques for effectively teaching diverse subject matters and promoting deep understanding by utilizing all of a student's abilities.Author Biography: David Lazear is the author of Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment and the founder of New Dimensions of Learning, an organization that trains educators to apply research on multiple intelligences to teaching. He lives in Chicago.
Synopsis
This creative guidebook demonstrates for educators how to use new research about multiple intelligences to help students learn. Sample units emphasize how to move students' thinking away from rote memorization of facts and toward understanding the dynamic relationships between those facts and the various processes involved. Lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school classes provide specific techniques for effectively teaching diverse subject matters and promoting deep understanding by utilizing all of a student's abilities.
Author Biography: David Lazear is the author of Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment and the founder of New Dimensions of Learning, an organization that trains educators to apply research on multiple intelligences to teaching. He lives in Chicago.