Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences

Teams, Themes, and Threads
Second Edition
Robin J. Fogarty - Robin Fogarty & Associates, Ltd.
Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences
December 2007 | 232 pages | Corwin
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"The authors are sensitive to the constraints that operate on teachers even as they are open to ways in which teachers can refashion their classes and curricula to reach more children in more effective ways. This book will help teachers enliven and enrich their classrooms and forge new connections across concepts and curricula."
—From the Foreword by Howard Gardner

"On the one hand, teachers and other curriculum workers are held accountable for understanding, organizing, implementing, and designing instruction and assessing standards-based outcomes. On the other hand, they are also being admonished to teach for understanding, thinking skills, enduring learning, cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, individual differences, and developmental levels. This book provides a wealth of delightful, creative, and compelling strategies, lessons, and techniques for making sense of these many diverse theories."
—Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Sacramento

Develop powerful instructional tools that target diverse learning needs!

In this unique and practical book, authors Robin Fogarty and Judy Stoehr demonstrate an approach for creating integrated curricula that develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students. This second edition provides planning methods for interactive lessons and strategies for implementing "big ideas" or themes. Offering voices from academia and the classroom, this research-based volume:

  • Provides strategies for building collaborative teacher teams
  • Presents a six-step process for developing thematic learning units
  • Highlights ways to thread life skills throughout the curriculum
  • Describes types of assessments for integrated curricula

This insightful handbook emphasizes a learner-centered, interdisciplinary approach and holistic, experiential learning that leads to lifelong skills and equal opportunities for all children to succeed.

Contents

Foreword by Howard Gardner

Foreword by Howard Gardner

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Introduction

The Why's and Wherefore's

The Why's and Wherefore's

A Look at the Book

  • 1. Theories
  • Caine and Caine's Twelve Principles
  • From the Tower: Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
  • From the Field: Multiple Intelligences
  • From the Tower: Fogarty's Models of Curriculum Integration
  • From the Field: Curriculum Integration
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Frames of Mind - Grid Talk
  • 2. Teams
  • Teams Rap
  • List of Words (Bombardment)
  • Jagged Profile Activities
  • Jagged Profile Implications
  • Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities
  • Forming Teams: Top Down or Bottom Up?
  • Beginning the Conversation: It's a Start!
  • Teaming Conference
  • Team Meetings
  • Guide on the Side: Facilitating the Team or PLC
  • 3. Themes
  • Themes as Organizing Centers
  • Themes as Catalysts
  • Thematic Teaching Theorists
  • T-H-E-M-E-S
  • Basic Models
  • Introduction to Tandems - Themes
  • Elementary Lesson: "Miss Mary Mack"
  • Middle School Lesson: Africa - South of the Sahara
  • High School Lesson: Medieval Europe During the Black Death
  • Matrix Mixer
  • 4. Threads
  • Reform for the Twenty-First Century
  • Problem Solving Becomes the Thread
  • Life Skills
  • Basic Models
  • Introduction to Tandems - Threaded
  • Elementary Lesson: Threaded Model: Prediction
  • Middle School Lesson: Threaded Model: Cause and Effect
  • High School Lesson: Threaded Model: Communication
  • Kids Incorporated and the Cemetery Study

Authors' Note

  • The Tri-Assessment Model
  • Rubric for Integrating Learning
  • Using the Tri-Assessment Model
  • Speech Fugue: Elementary

Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools

Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Description

"The authors are sensitive to the constraints that operate on teachers even as they are open to ways in which teachers can refashion their classes and curricula to reach more children in more effective ways. This book will help teachers enliven and enrich their classrooms and forge new connections across concepts and curricula."
—From the Foreword by Howard Gardner

"On the one hand, teachers and other curriculum workers are held accountable for understanding, organizing, implementing, and designing instruction and assessing standards-based outcomes. On the other hand, they are also being admonished to teach for understanding, thinking skills, enduring learning, cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, individual differences, and developmental levels. This book provides a wealth of delightful, creative, and compelling strategies, lessons, and techniques for making sense of these many diverse theories."
—Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Sacramento

Develop powerful instructional tools that target diverse learning needs!

In this unique and practical book, authors Robin Fogarty and Judy Stoehr demonstrate an approach for creating integrated curricula that develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students. This second edition provides planning methods for interactive lessons and strategies for implementing "big ideas" or themes. Offering voices from academia and the classroom, this research-based volume:

  • Provides strategies for building collaborative teacher teams
  • Presents a six-step process for developing thematic learning units
  • Highlights ways to thread life skills throughout the curriculum
  • Describes types of assessments for integrated curricula

This insightful handbook emphasizes a learner-centered, interdisciplinary approach and holistic, experiential learning that leads to lifelong skills and equal opportunities for all children to succeed.

Contents

Foreword by Howard Gardner

Foreword by Howard Gardner

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Introduction

The Why's and Wherefore's

The Why's and Wherefore's

A Look at the Book

  • 1. Theories
  • Caine and Caine's Twelve Principles
  • From the Tower: Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
  • From the Field: Multiple Intelligences
  • From the Tower: Fogarty's Models of Curriculum Integration
  • From the Field: Curriculum Integration
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Frames of Mind - Grid Talk
  • 2. Teams
  • Teams Rap
  • List of Words (Bombardment)
  • Jagged Profile Activities
  • Jagged Profile Implications
  • Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities
  • Forming Teams: Top Down or Bottom Up?
  • Beginning the Conversation: It's a Start!
  • Teaming Conference
  • Team Meetings
  • Guide on the Side: Facilitating the Team or PLC
  • 3. Themes
  • Themes as Organizing Centers
  • Themes as Catalysts
  • Thematic Teaching Theorists
  • T-H-E-M-E-S
  • Basic Models
  • Introduction to Tandems - Themes
  • Elementary Lesson: "Miss Mary Mack"
  • Middle School Lesson: Africa - South of the Sahara
  • High School Lesson: Medieval Europe During the Black Death
  • Matrix Mixer
  • 4. Threads
  • Reform for the Twenty-First Century
  • Problem Solving Becomes the Thread
  • Life Skills
  • Basic Models
  • Introduction to Tandems - Threaded
  • Elementary Lesson: Threaded Model: Prediction
  • Middle School Lesson: Threaded Model: Cause and Effect
  • High School Lesson: Threaded Model: Communication
  • Kids Incorporated and the Cemetery Study

Authors' Note

  • The Tri-Assessment Model
  • Rubric for Integrating Learning
  • Using the Tri-Assessment Model
  • Speech Fugue: Elementary

Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools

Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

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Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences

Teams, Themes, and Threads


December 2007 | 232 pages | Corwin

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Hardcover 27/02/2023 9781412955522 $94.95

"The authors are sensitive to the constraints that operate on teachers even as they are open to ways in which teachers can refashion their classes and curricula to reach more children in more effective ways. This book will help teachers enliven and enrich their classrooms and forge new connections across concepts and curricula."
—From the Foreword by Howard Gardner

"On the one hand, teachers and other curriculum workers are held accountable for understanding, organizing, implementing, and designing instruction and assessing standards-based outcomes. On the other hand, they are also being admonished to teach for understanding, thinking skills, enduring learning, cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, individual differences, and developmental levels. This book provides a wealth of delightful, creative, and compelling strategies, lessons, and techniques for making sense of these many diverse theories."
—Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus
California State University, Sacramento

Develop powerful instructional tools that target diverse learning needs!

In this unique and practical book, authors Robin Fogarty and Judy Stoehr demonstrate an approach for creating integrated curricula that develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students. This second edition provides planning methods for interactive lessons and strategies for implementing "big ideas" or themes. Offering voices from academia and the classroom, this research-based volume:

  • Provides strategies for building collaborative teacher teams
  • Presents a six-step process for developing thematic learning units
  • Highlights ways to thread life skills throughout the curriculum
  • Describes types of assessments for integrated curricula

This insightful handbook emphasizes a learner-centered, interdisciplinary approach and holistic, experiential learning that leads to lifelong skills and equal opportunities for all children to succeed.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Howard Gardner
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Why's and Wherefore's
  • A Look at the Book
  • 1. Theories
  • Caine and Caine's Twelve Principles
  • From the Tower: Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
  • From the Field: Multiple Intelligences
  • From the Tower: Fogarty's Models of Curriculum Integration
  • From the Field: Curriculum Integration
  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Frames of Mind - Grid Talk
  • 2. Teams
  • Teams Rap
  • List of Words (Bombardment)
  • Jagged Profile Activities
  • Jagged Profile Implications
  • Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities
  • Forming Teams: Top Down or Bottom Up?
  • Beginning the Conversation: It's a Start!
  • Teaming Conference
  • Team Meetings
  • Guide on the Side: Facilitating the Team or PLC
  • 3. Themes
  • Themes as Organizing Centers
  • Themes as Catalysts
  • Thematic Teaching Theorists
  • T-H-E-M-E-S
  • Basic Models
  • Introduction to Tandems - Themes
  • Elementary Lesson: "Miss Mary Mack"
  • Middle School Lesson: Africa - South of the Sahara
  • High School Lesson: Medieval Europe During the Black Death
  • Matrix Mixer
  • 4. Threads
  • Reform for the Twenty-First Century
  • Problem Solving Becomes the Thread
  • Life Skills
  • Basic Models
  • Introduction to Tandems - Threaded
  • Elementary Lesson: Threaded Model: Prediction
  • Middle School Lesson: Threaded Model: Cause and Effect
  • High School Lesson: Threaded Model: Communication
  • Kids Incorporated and the Cemetery Study
  • Authors' Note
  • The Tri-Assessment Model
  • Rubric for Integrating Learning
  • Using the Tri-Assessment Model
  • Speech Fugue: Elementary
  • Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"The authors are sensitive to the constraints that operate on teachers even as they are open to ways in which teachers can refashion their classes and curricula to reach more children in more effective ways. This book will help teachers to enliven and enrich their classrooms and to forge new connections across concepts and curricula."
From the Foreword by Howard Gardner
"Has great merit in providing connections and a strong learning environment for students. The authors provide excellent charts, templates, graphic organizers, and resources for educators to use and examine."
Rosemarie Young, Principal, Watson Lane Elementary School, Louisville, KY
"In this concrete book with a multitude of examples, the authors offer specific suggestions for merging curriculum with recent multiple intelligences experience and research. The tone is upbeat and the style is practical and well organized, making it appealing to teachers."
Renee Peoples, Teacher, Swain West Elementary, Bryson City, NC
"Well written, user-friendly, and has great examples that educators will relate to."
Brigitte Tennis, Headmistress and Seventh-Grade Teacher, Stella Schola Middle School, Redmond, WA
"Clear, concise, and with outstanding illustrative material. The book adds to the discussion on integrating curriculum with multiple intelligences."
Linda Eisinger, Third-Grade Teacher, West Elementary School, Jefferson City, NC

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