Module 1061
Using Multiple Intelligences to Reach Every Student
Apply this towards your professional development requirements
Tuition: $225 complete
What You'll Learn Today’s diverse classroom demands that educators vary their instruction based on students’ strengths, weaknesses and preferred learning styles. Doing so allows you to effectively reach and develop each student. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (MI) can help you do just that.
This module walks you through the process of identifying and understanding the multiple intelligences and their relationship with your students in order to create instructional strategies and assessments that benefit all types of learners. Plus, Bruce Campbell shares the exact multiple intelligence teaching methods he's implemented in his nationally acclaimed classroom to help you enhance your lesson planning, class structure and more. You’ll discover:
The implications MI has on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment 10 diverse MI classroom models you can use immediately A proven framework for lesson planning using multiple intelligences 4 guidelines for making the most of your new found MI knowledge 8 inspiring real student examples across multiple grade levels that demonstrate the power and potential of teaching through multiple intelligences Highlights Instructional Strategies Based on the Multiple Intelligences How to incorporate MI learning centers in any class, on any grade level 5 criteria for creating successful student learning groups How to bridge students' strengths with weaknesses for optimal learning Bruce Campbell’s classroom: A sample lesson, start to finish How to implement MI in whole-group instruction Research and History Behind the Multiple Intelligences The characteristics and traits necessary for a MI Exercises for you to tap into your own multiple intelligences The relationship between brain research and MI Examples of savants in history that represent each intelligence How the multiple intelligences develop in students over time Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom Questions Answered Why must educators change the way we perceive our students? What kinds of positive changes can MI theory produce in the classroom?/li> What is the best way to determine a student’s dominant intelligence? Should you optimize a strength or focus on shoring up weaknesses? Your Instructor Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., has been a classroom teacher for 35 years and his classroom is still an exemplar for differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and project and brain-based learning. Bruce is the author of numerous books and articles for educators. He serves as an associate professor of education for Antioch University Seattle, an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific and as a frequent speaker at national education conferences. He has taught teachers in all 50 states as well as in countries all around the world about how to improve instruction and how to spark a love of learning.
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Materials & Assessment
Lectures
Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on
this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your
progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your
computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD.
Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park;
and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on
weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources
Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment
If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion , you do not need to
complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to
receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development
hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge
To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
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