Provides information on ways to create an understanding of multiple intelligences in schools to raise pupil self-esteem, self-motivation, and independence.
What Is Smart' There's evidence of so much more than "reading, writing, and 'rithmetic" in every child -- at least seven distinct intelligences, according to the theory of multiple intelligences, developed by Harvard's Dr. Howard Gardner. In Seven Times Smarter, veteran educator…
Explains what the seven types of intelligence are and presents fifty activities designed to help children develop them; covers visual/spatial, verbal/linguistic, musical, kinesthetic, logical/mathematical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal intelligence.
1: Background -- The idea of multiple intelligences -- Intelligence: earlier views -- Biological foundations of intelligence -- What is an intelligence? -- 2: The theory -- Linguistic intelligence -- Musical intelligence -- Logical-mathematical intelligence -- Spatial intelligen…