Howard Gardner writes in the Harvard Crimson about the recent departure of Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and the challenge of leadership. Link: http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=511534
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Differentiation begins when a teacher takes an honest look at the diversity of learners within the classroom. This article discusses the importance of building relationships and structuring learning to the individual, especially through the middle years of schooling. Link: Differentiating Instruction: Why Bother?.
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…
The Challenge of Aligning Teaching and Behaviour Management Barry Fields. The Productive Pedagogies construct has been particularly powerful and influential in defining what schools should be aiming to achieve in teaching and learning. Interestingly, the Productive Pedagogies has as much to say about behaviour management as to does about teaching. This paper explores the direction given to teachers, through the…
An excerpt from Professor John Hattie's Inaugural Lecture, Univeristy of Auckland, August 2nd 1999. Professor Hattie's work resonates very strongly with my own experiences and limited research. It most certainly encourages me to continue with further study in this field. This was his third inaugural lecture. The excerpt reads; There is so much known about what makes a difference in…
A new approach to teaching is reassembling familiar classroom techniques into a workable model that focuses on high quality student learning and improved outcomes. Link: Productive Pedagogy. [2002] Link: Education Queensland [2004]