multiple intelligences

Offers advice to educators on how to reach twenty-first-century adolescent learners, providing resources for the content areas, and including vignettes and examples.

Through direct quotations, verse, and prose, presents the achievements of a diverse group of people who illustrate Dr. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Includes information about the eight basic ways people can be "smart," as well as suggested activities.

Explains the theory of multiple intelligences to young people, describing each of the eight intelligences, and offering advice on how to capitalize on personal strengths. Includes quizzes, fun facts, and resources.

Presents ideas that challenge twenty-first-century education techniques, focusing on innovation and challenging tradition, and describes customized learning, the importance of computers and technology, competing in the global class room, and more.

Offers parents and teachers advice on how to help children become persistent and successful learners, providing lesson plans for the accompanying set of children's books.

A boy named Brilliant Brain, who is good at soccer and math but not spelling, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach him strategies for remembering how to spell commonly misspelled words.

A girl named Magnificent Mind, who has trouble listening in class, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach her strategies for paying attention.

A girl named Magnificent Mind, who has trouble with reading comprehension, visits a fantasy land called Intelligence Avenue and meets the Smart Parts, who teach her strategies for understanding what she's reading.