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Concept to Classroom: Resources

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By improving quality, IDEAL aims to attract more children into schools, to keep them there until the end of 5 year cycle, to provide them an effective and joyful learning experience, and to help them achieve acceptable levels of learning.
The MWTL approach has been developed based on multiple intelligence (MI) theory.
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- The theory leads to the premise us to think and believe that children learn in different ways and they have different learning styles that correspond to the intelligences in which they are particularly strong. This approach requires teachers to adopt multiple teaching techniques so that children can easily learn through their strongest intelligence(s), while at the same time developing the weaker ones.
- The child is encouraged to use multiple intelligences to extract knowledge through his or her environment and from his or her own experiences. Listening to Shikha, it seems that if the aim of this technique is to create thinking, confident, creative and happy children. The project has indeed made positive changes in learning.
- "These children are from the age group of 6-10. They have never been given this type of attention before. IDEAL project trained me in this new teaching-learning approach and I noticed the differences immediately. Before, my children were listless and became tired very easily from the constant lecturing and parrot fashion repetition of the lesson. Now they look alert and speak out and are no longer shy.
- eaching through song, dance, recitation and acting is much more fun and it is very easy because the children really concentrate and feel they are learning through joyful activities", says Shikha.
- She reported that before attendance was low and now it has increased and more children attend school regularly.
- Shikha has realised that children will learn more quickly when they have inspiration and individual attention. She now believes that all children love to learn. It is an automatic process for them. They have a natural inquisitiveness. Teaching them then becomes a pleasure and joyful.
- transform their classes from the old "spoon fed" system of teaching to the dynamic application of multiple intelligence principles. The reason for this is that it involves more work on their part.

New York Times September 11

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Historians evaluate documents and testimony to reconstruct plausible accounts of past events.
A dozen or more years of education should yield students who can think well about the essential questions of human life: who are we, where do we come from, what's the world made of, what have humans achieved and what can we achieve, how does one lead a good life?
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- By a convenient pun, the attainment of disciplines requires discipline. This is because our natural, common-sense ways of making sense of the world are non- or even anti-disciplinary. Only through years of asking questions and following well-honed strategies can we replace common-sense accounts (e.g., human
  beings have always existed, the best portraits are photographs) with more nuanced and grounded disciplinary accounts.
- The distinct contribution of formal education is to equip students with the ways of thinking, the scholarly disciplines, that have been constructed over the years to allow individuals to think well and deeply
  about these questions and some viable answers.
- Next, facts. You cannot think well about a topic or question unless you have information, data, facts. However, that information should be acquired not for its own sake but as a means of finding a better answer to a consequential question. Facts can only be well used if they relate to one another in a
  meaningful way: otherwise, to use Alfred North Whitehead's term, they are simply "inert knowledge." Facts need the connective tissue of disciplines, or they are undisciplined, rote information.
- One can have lots of facts in a subject without having any disciplinary understanding
- These instruments may probe factual or subject-matter
  knowledge, but they typically fall short of probing disciplinary mastery and understanding.
- I favor instruments that actually determine whether a person can think in a disciplined way.
- Only a concerted effort over years to establish disciplinary ways of thinking can eradicate or educate the unschooled mind. My own belief is that this goal is best achieved by focusing in depth on certain important topics; not only does one come to understand those
  topics well, but in the process one gains incipient mastery for what it is like to use the methods of a discipline.
- one focusing on questions and on ways of thinking, the other on factual answers and on shared knowledge.
- Competence in reading (that is in comprehension) is central to academic achievement and to participation in economic and political life.
- A broad vocabulary is an index to broad knowledge, and broad knowledge, extended over time, is the key to depth of knowledge and to a general ability to learn new things