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Lazear, David – 2000
This book is concerned with reinventing the learning process from a multiple intelligences perspective and urges explicitly teaching students about multiple intelligences to further their metacognitive understanding. The multiple-intelligence-based curriculum is intended to interface with the regular academic curriculum. An introductory chapter…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted

Greenwald, Nina L. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1998
Presents a lesson plan that uses a constructivist approach for developing and challenging students' different thinking strengths. In the context of musical and bodily-kinesthetic thinking, elementary school students interpret the sounds and movements the dinosaurs made as they negotiated their primitive environments. (CR)
Descriptors: Body Language, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Dinosaurs
Lazear, David – 2000
This guide offers teaching models based on the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) and applies these models to the design of lessons that address the unique learning needs of all students. The first chapter makes the case for integrating MI into the curriculum. The second chapter describes the capacities of the various intelligences. Chapters 3…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Curriculum Based Assessment, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Murray, Ann – 1998
This paper presents information on using a process approach to teaching thematic instruction in preservice teacher education. Section 1 offers a junior block thematic mini-unit designed to give students intensive practice in a specific content area by designing a thematic topic in the content area and by developing lessons on three or four related…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Lesson Plans
Meyers, Ellen, Ed. – 1998
This book contains suggestions from 45 educators on what every teacher should know. It includes: "From Start to Finish: A Strategic Plan" (e.g., recognizing problems, strategic planning, planning lessons, and managing time); "Classroom Management" (e.g., designing a creative learning environment, empowering students, maintaining discipline, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Nelson, Annabelle – 1994
This book describes a conceptual framework for multicultural education that is based on how various cultures lead their members to know about the world. This approach accounts for diverse ways of knowing and learning and is based on the symbol of the wheel as an ancient organizational model from Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. This model…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
Armstrong, Thomas – 2000
This book (second edition) is an adaptation of Howard Gardener's theory on multiple intelligences (MI). The model in this book provides a language for talking about the inner gifts of so-called learning-disabled children. It describes how to bring Gardner's theory--a means of mapping the broad range of human abilities--into the classroom. The MI…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment