Using Multiple Intelligences to Reach Every Student

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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 course 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.

The Virtual Teachers Lounge™

Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:

• Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
• Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
• Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
• Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
• Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
• You can log whenever is most convenient for you, 24/7

Materials and Assessment