Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom

by Thomas Armstrong

Number of pages: 246

Publisher: ASCD: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

BBB Library: Education

ISBN: 9781416607892



About the Author

Armstrong is an educator and psychologist. He’s the Executive Director of the American Institute for learning and Human Development.

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Editorial Review

In Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, Thomas Armstrong describes how educators can bring Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences into the classroom every day. Combining clear explanations and practical advice, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom is an excellent guide to identifying, nurturing, and supporting the unique capabilities of evey student.

Book Reviews

"The book includes dozens of practical tips, strategies, and examples from real schools and districts. Armstrong provides tools, resources, and ideas that educators can immediately use to help students of all ages achieve their fullest potential in life." - ASCD

"Armstrong provides tools, resources, and ideas that educators can immediately use to help students of all ages achieve their fullest potential in life." - Questia

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Wisdom to Share

Keeping a personal journal involves students in making ongoing written records related to a specific domain.

When using storytelling in the classroom, you weave essential concepts, ideas, and instructional goals into a story that you tell to students.

Have students study the lives of well-known people proficient in one or more of the intelligences.

Take students to places in the community where each of the intelligences is particularly valued and practiced.

Regularly bring members of your community into the classroom to talk about their jobs, and contextualize this activity within an MI framework.

Talk with parents because they observe their child’s strengths at home.

Talk with other teachers and compare notes. A child who appears low functioning in one class may be a star in a class that requires a different intelligence.

While you don’t have to master all eight intelligences, you should know how to tap resources in the intelligences you typically shy away from in the classroom.

Before applying any model of learning in a classroom environment, we should first apply it to ourselves as educators and adult learners, for unless we have an experiential understanding of the theory and have personalized its content, we are unlikely to be committed to using it with students.

Of all the eight human intelligences, only two verbal/linguistic intelligence and logical/mathematical intelligence have dominated the traditional pedagogy of our societies.