Insightful articles in this updated collection discuss the nature of the intelligent learner and what educators and scientists have to say about teaching for intelligence.
This compelling book provides one of the most comprehensive and detailed evaluations of a very popular cognitive skills course -- Reuven Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Programme.
To Increase Student Learning and Achievement Elena L Grigorenko, Robert J. Sternberg. fission. ... Allison was a fifth-grade student who had significant difficulty with spelling. She tried and tried to memorize the spellings of the ...
Intelligence Can be Taught
The focus is not on modifying students' intelligence, per se, but on increasing their disciplinary knowledge and understanding. Hence, this book will help teachers learn how they can teach more effectively what they are already teaching.
Based on extensive, collaborative research by leading authorities in the field, this book shows how to implement teaching and learning strategies that nurture intelligence, creativity, and wisdom.
For example, many people today think that, above all, we are preparing children and young people for a world of change. Paradoxically, such people agree that the only thing that people can say with any certainty about the challenges ...
What your education failed to teach you Craig Adams. Secret 3 Analogy : A Sign of Genius Simple Comparisons , Simple Labels — Seeing the similarity or the difference between one thing and another could save your life . If someone cut the ...
... people need to know, understand, and be able to do, if they are to meet those challenges, and take advantage of those opportunities, as well as they can. For example, many people today think that, above all, we are preparing children ...
This outstanding resource offers an accurate reflection of Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences -- and the knowledge to extend this theory to effective classroom practice. Broad-based and comprehensive, this book...