Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads

by Robin J. Fogarty, Judy Stoehr

Overview

The authors demonstrate how to develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students and provide a six-step process for developing thematic learning units.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412955539
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/11/2007
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robin Fogarty is President of RFA: A Robin Fogarty Company, a Chicago-based, minority-owned, educational publishing/consulting company. Robin received her doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University of Chicago. A leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom, Robin has trained educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction and assessment strategies.

She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Robin has published articles in Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, The Journal of Staff Development and The Middle School Lournal. She is the author of numerous publications, including Brain-Compatible Classrooms, Literacy Matters, Ten Things New Teachers Need, How to Integrate the Curricula, The Adult Learner, A Look at Transfer, Close the Achievement Gap, Twelve Brain Principles, Nine Best Practices, and From Staff Room to Classroom: Planning and Coaching Professional Learning, How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core: 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards, Invite! Excite! Ignite! 13 Principles for Teaching, Learning and Leading K-12 classrooms

Robin received her Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education at SUNY, Potsdam, NY, and her Masters in Instructional Strategies from National Louis University in Evanston, IL. She is known as the teachers’ teacher and has mentored numerous colleagues in the art and science of working with the adult learner. She brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to all endeavors, has a wealth of knowledge in the field and conducts highly interactive PD sessions.

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

"Well written, user-friendly, and has great examples that educators will relate to. "

Brigitte Tennis

"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. "

Howard Gardner

"Teachers are held accountable for designing instruction and assessing standards-based outcomes. They are also asked to teach for retention, cooperative learning, and individual differences. This book provides a wealth of delightful, creative, and compelling strategies and lessons, with techniques for integrating these diverse objectives. "

Arthur L. Costa

"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

"Clear, concise, and with outstanding illustrative material. The book adds to the discussion on integrating curriculum with multiple intelligences. "

Linda Eisinger