Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences

Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences in an outstanding resource that offers expert analysis of Gardner's ?Theory of Multiple Intelligences??and the knowledge to extend this theory to effective classroom practice. Broad-based and comprehensive, this text describes implications for pedagogy, team-teaching, student strengths, curriculum, assessment, community involvement, and diverse classroom models. The authors devote one chapter to each of the eight intelligences. They define intelligence, provide a checklist for identifying it, suggest environmental considerations, and offer related teaching strategies. Additional chapters survey Gardner's recent work on teaching for understanding, performance-based assessment, and model MI school programs and student outcomes.

Linda Campbell, Ph.D. is a professor of education at Antioch University Seattle. She has designed and administered teacher education programs for urban and tribal communities. The recipient of a Gates Foundation grant in 2002, Linda creates college access prograns for underserved students.She authored Multiple Intelligences and Student Achievement published by ASCD in 1999, Mindful Learning published by Corwin Press in 2002, and is the recipient of numerous service awards.