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Coffman, Diane M. – Mailbox Teacher, 1999
The theory of multiple intelligences (MI) says that everyone has certain ways that they learn best. The eight intelligences are verbal/linguistic, musical/rhythmic, bodily/kinesthetic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist. This paper explains how to start teaching the MI way, presents a survey to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Intelligence Differences
Teele, Sue – 2000
This book offers practical applications for exploring multiple intelligences in the classroom to help each student express his or her own personal learning rainbow. Special features of the book include seven complete lesson plans ready to be adapted to any grade level; objectives, activities, and applications that meet U.S. and California…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Style, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fowler, Charles – Music Educators Journal, 1990
Outlines the work of psychologist Howard Gardner, who isolated and identified seven basic, autonomous intelligences. Discusses the ideas presented at a 1989 South Carolina conference that probed the implications of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences for the arts and for education. Contends that the theory of multiple intelligences…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Fine Arts
Meeker, Mary – Communicator, 1987
The history of leadership by California educators in the field of gifted develop the intellectual giftedness. The document argues for the objective evaluation article asserts that gifted education in California is at the end of its adolescence and ready to have a new degree of order introduced through the adoption of scientific processes. The…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Mallonee, Richard L. – 1997
Howard Gardner's "Theory of Multiple Intelligences" suggests that everyone is capable of at least seven "ways" of knowing. According to this theory, human beings know the world and solve problems through: (1) language; (2) logical-mathematical analysis; (3) visual-spatial representations; (4) musical thinking; (5) the use of…
Descriptors: Choral Music, Class Activities, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education
Dunn, Lloyd M. – 1988
A review of research on the cognitive, linguistic, and scholastic development of mainland Hispanic-American children paints a dismal overall picture. Hispanics are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, 11% of the population in 1986; about 75% have Mexican ancestry. Less than half of Latin adults speak English well enough for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism