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The problems and challenges of education for gifted students in the Asia-Pacific region are to be discussed at a conference that begins today in Taipei. The Ninth Asia-Pacific Conference on Giftedness is being held until Friday in Taipei along with the Children and Youth Creativity Olympia Camp. More than 600 people from 28 different countries and 278 youths from eight…
This is the text of an address given by Howard Gardner in April 2005 to a Multiple Intelligences Conference at Manchester University. In the address Gardner talks about theories of intelligence, myths about MI, educational applications, and MI issues for the Future. Link: A 'Multiple Intelligences' (MI) Approach to Education.
Congratulations to Howard Gardner. Howard worked with us in April 2005 and again in our Future Minds Forum in 2007 [edit] Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Howard Gardner has won the American Society for Training and Development's Lifetime Achievement in Workplace Learning and Performance award. The award recognizes an individual for a body of work that has had significant impact on the field…
Moral Conclusion For the moment Rosenthal will venture only one conclusion of a prescriptive nature from his decades of research: "Superb teachers can teach the "unteachable"; we know that. So, what I think this research shows is that there's a moral obligation for a teacher: if the teacher knows that certain students can't learn, that teacher should get out of…
Professor Howard Gardner is at it again, never ceasing to create innovative approaches to traditional conceptions of thinking and learning. His groundbreaking theory of multiple intelligences spawned a re-evaluation of school curricula, highlighting the importance of including the arts and culture in mainstream learning. Recently, at the annual conference of the National Association of Laboratory Schools (NALS), co-hosted by the…
The Gift of Language by Theodore Dalrymple No, Dr. Pinker, it’s not just from nature. Source: The City Journal [New York -USA]
How Do You Measure People Skills? The elusive landscape of social intelligence. By Paul Harris [Source: Slate Magazine]
From the Manila Standard: The April 12 agreement, which will seek to instill among school children the positive Filipino values of pagkamasinop, pagkamatipid, pag-iimpok, and pagkakaisa, will put on stream two components of the project. The first is to develop for the elementary schoolteachers teaching guides that will inform them about basic financial and economic concepts relating to savings. The…