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…
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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…
The author of multiple intelligence theory talks to Liz Ford about his latest work - on good bosses For a professor who has resided in one of American's most ivory of towers for more than 40 years, the psychologist Howard Gardner is surprisingly down to earth. When asked about his latest theories on the mind, the man who was…
The American Chronicle - Human Intelligence: Going Beyond Mere IQ The ability to excel at a variety of tasks, with a particular emphasis on academic success, is intelligence. A more detailed definition emphasizes that intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. In psychology, the study of intelligence is generally…
Dubai Women's College hosted a workshop titled 'Multiple Intelligence thinking and its uses in the language classroom' presented by world-renowned speaker Mario Rinvolucri. http://www.ameinfo.com/104023.html
Thanks to Julie Atkins for pointing this out.. 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…