Hundreds of Practical Ideas Easily Integrated Into Your Lessons and Activities Are your students word smart? Math smart? People smart? Tap into your students' diverse intelligences and enrich your lesson plans with this helpful resource. Your students will love learning in ways that play to their strengths.
EAP Now! English for Academic Purposes Student's Book
EAP Now has been written to provide students with the skills necessary for success in English speaking tertiary educational institutions. It takes students from upper intermediate to advanced level. As well as speaking, writing, reading and listening skills the course also includes skills in grammar, critical thinking, English for the internet age, learner independence and study. The tasks guide students through realistic situations and assignments, simulating those likely to be encountered in college.
MI is a powerful tool that helps you to appreciate and enrich the talents of all your learners, whatever their age. Creating an understanding of MI in schools has been shown to improve pupils' self-esteem, self-motivation and independence, and to help underachievers realize their potential.
The theory of multiple intelligences (MI) shows that there is much more to intelligence than high IQ, good spelling or quick mental maths - in fact there's a whole variety of ways to be clever, including musically, verbally, interpersonally, kinaesthetically and naturalistically.
Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology
The second edition of Multiple Intelligences and instructional Technology offers additional insights into the relationship between human intelligence, technology and effective instruction. The teachers are generally very excited about the possibilities of MI theory. The aim of this book is to help teachers dig deeper and and realize the implications of Gardner's theory for diversifying their teaching practices in the classroom. There remains a huge void between Gardner's vision and its successful implementation in instruction.
Evidence shows that lecturing for a full class period or using worksheets as a time filler just won’t do it. Here is the help you need to create a meaningful classroom environment that stimulates, rather than discourages, active learning and participation. Teach your students how to accumulate real knowledge, develop principles, and build skills — not just memorize facts.
This practical, step-by-step teaching approach is based on the latest research on learning and multiple intelligences. Ensure that what you teach isn’t going in one ear and out the other, but is committed to students’ long-term memory. Change to interactive thinking activities — and increase your students’ success.
Here are the keys to transforming your classroom from teacher focused to student focused. Change your mission from students gettingthe lesson to students learning how to learn. Move your emphasis from filling the time to showing students how to construct knowledge.
Find out how to
Use students’ multiple intelligences to help them learn
Create a suitable climate for learning
Leave lecturing behind — and raise comprehension
Teach students how to organize and process information
Lower your school’s drop-out rate and increase attendance
Help students master difficult concepts using visual representatives
