Rainbows of Intelligence: Exploring How Students Learn / Edition 1

by Jay Oja

Overview

Foreword by Thomas Armstrong

Rainbows of Intelligence explores the range of students' intelligence and learning potential through the metaphor of rainbows and colors. The book includes a variety of lesson plans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761976301
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/15/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Sue Teele, PhD is the author of several books, including The Multiple Intelligences School: A Place for All Students to Succeed, and a spatial inventory, The Teele Inventory for Multiple Intelligences. She is the Director of Education Extension at the University of California, Riverside, where she administers over 20 different programs for 8,000 to 10,000 educators a year. She created the first and only certificate in the study of multiple intelligences in the world. She is also the director of the Renaissance Project, a research study that examines the theory of multiple intelligences and its impact in the educational setting.

Table of Contents

A Focus on How Students Learn
Recent Research on the Brain
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Changing Our Thinking about Education
Rainbows of Intelligence Model
Conclusions
Classroom Units Incorporating Color and Multiple Intelligences

Editorial Reviews

"A wealth of ideas, strategies, resources, and reflections on how to use multiple intelligences to help each student. The latest findings in brain research, cognitive psychology, and human development that many teachers will find refreshing and useful."

Thomas Armstrong