Gardner Salahi's List: Differentiation

• Today’s teachers continue to be challenged to meet all learners’ needs by  modifying instruction in a variety of ways
• make learning motivating and fun
• Student-centered classrooms in which the needs of diverse learners can be met  are the heart and soul of differentiated instruction … and what this course is  about.
• if you are willing to explore new activities and visualize ways to use them in  your own setting, you will have an empowered classroom and a richer teaching  experienc
• We have tried to structure practical assignments that can be used with your  students, rather than requiring the typical research papers assigned in most  education courses

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• The primary purpose of this seminar is to identify how the US education system  should respond to the demands of globalization and explore ways in which  technology can be utilized to increase teacher and student levels of creativity.
• learning techniques that empower both teachers and students to apply creative  approaches to problem solving.
• three factors are influencing the American economy: Abundance, Asia, and  Automation
• six senses that he believes will give American workers an advantage in the  global economy.
• The strength of this book is that it provides a foundation for analyzing  education from other institutional perspectives

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• Special Report: The Multiple Intelligences Redefine "Smart"
• rejected the traditional and long-held view that aptitude consists solely of the ability to reason and understand complex ideas.
• a "grassroots uprising" of educators at all levels who embraced multiple intelligences (MI) theory "with a genuine passion."

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• Multiple Intelligences

• Multiple Intelligences

• The disciplines are arguably the most important human inventions of the last two millenniums. Yet their importance tends to be obscured, especially in the rhetoric-filled discourse of education. Instead, we hear a lot about facts, skills, tests and subject matte
• One cannot even enter the disciplinary worlds unless one has mastered the three R's. Basic skills are the means for acquiring the disciplines, just as the disciplines (and ultimately interdisciplinary amalgams) provide the means for thinking well about important issue
• . Facts can only be well used if they relate to one another in a meaningful way:
• One can have lots of facts in a subject without having any disciplinary 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
• I care mightily that half of the American population (and perhaps some of our recent Presidents) can't distinguish astronomical from astrological ways of thinking and that two-thirds of Americans don't see the disciplinary difference between evolutionary and creationist accounts of the origins of human beings.

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• Activity Chart for Multiple Intelligences

• Multiple Intelligence Inventory

• According to Gardner, intelligence is:

    

  <!--[if !supportLists]-->§      <!--[endif]-->The ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture

    

  <!--[if !supportLists]-->§      <!--[endif]-->A set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in life

    

  <!--[if !supportLists]-->§      <!--[endif]-->The potential for finding or creating solutions for problems, which involves gathering new knowledge
•  <!--[endif]-->We can improve education by addressing the multiple intelligences of our student
• Multiple intelligences can be nurtured and strengthened, or ignored and weakened 
• ccording to MI Theory, identifying each student’s intelligences has strong ramifications in the classroom.  If a child's intelligence can be identified, then teachers can accommodate different children more successfully according to their orientation to learning.  Teachers in traditional classrooms primarily teach to the verbal/linguistic and mathematical/logical intelligences.

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• BUILDING BRIDGES UNITS

• Multiple Intelligences