Transform your teaching into outstanding, high-impact learning with ready-to-use classroom strategies on differentiating instruction and assessment with the Theory of Multiple Intelligences and make every lesson effective for your students!
Addressing what matters most to teachers, Handbook of Differentiated Instruction Using MI and More combines practical applications of Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” with differentiation so that teachers have a framework to respond to the increasing diversity of today’s classrooms. Organized in a workbook style, the handbook shows teachers how to meet the needs of struggling and advanced students alike. Written in a user-friendly style, the book presents many helpful tools, including: classroom models, whole and small group instruction, student and teacher inventories, curriculum units, thematic planning tips, homework starters, and assessment processes. This active learning approach supports every teacher in making a profound difference in the learning and the lives of students.
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- Features easy-to-use organization for quick access to needed materials and ideas at-a-glance.
- Provides a comprehensible format for differentiating instruction to meet each classroom’s broad range of learners.
- Guides teachers in develop the eight intelligences and differentiating any content in multi-modal approaches.
- Presents teachers with 18 ready-to-use lesson plans in the core subjects: language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.
- Incorporates active learning methods into every sample lesson, curricular, and assessment tools allowing teachers to help students learn and retain content.
- Includes MI inventories for teachers and students to identify their strengths and to apply such strengths to areas of challenge.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Getting Acquainted with Differentiated Instruction
Getting Acquainted with Multiple Intelligences
Part I: Preparing the Classroom for Differentiated Instruction
Diverse Models for Using Multiple Intelligences to Differentiate Instruction
Daily Format in One Differentiated Classroom Using Multiple Intelligences
Using Multiple Intelligences Centers to Differentiate
Grouping Students for MI Centers
Starting a Multiple Intelligences Program
Resources for a Differentiated/MI Classroom
Part II: Preparing Your Students and Parents for Differentiated Instruction through MI
“The Prince”: A Parable for Multiple Intelligences
Teaching Students and Parents about Differentiated Instruction and MI
A Letter to Parents
Lesson #1: A Differentiated Eight-Part Lesson on Multiple Intelligences
Part III: Preparing for Differentiation with MI
Teacher Self-Reflection Inventory
Linguistic Strategies to Differentiate
Journaling
Logical-Mathematical Strategies to Differentiate
A Deductive Reasoning Game
Kinesthetic Strategies to Differentiate
Paper Plates
Visual-Spatial Strategies to Differentiate
Student-made Cards
Musical Strategies to Differentiate
Curriculum Songs
Interpersonal Activities to Differentiate
Mix & Match Grouping
Intrapersonal Strategies to Differentiate
Student Choice Options
Naturalist Strategies to Differentiate
Creating a Class Garden
Student Handouts
Differentiating Spelling Using MI
Differentiating Multiplication Using MI
Part IV: Differentiating Assessment in an MI Classroom
An MI Rubric
Collaborative Assessment Conferences
MI Portfolios to Differentiate Assessment
Personal Reflection Sheets
Self-Assessment
Peer Assessment with “The Appreciation Sandwich”
Long-term Student Project Assessment
Part V: Differentiating Lessons Using Multiple Intelligences
Lesson #2: Adjectives
Lesson #3: Magnetism
Lesson #4: Adding Fractions
Lesson #5: Christopher Columbus
Lesson #6: Whales
Lesson #7: Ben Franklin
Lesson #8: The Story About Ping
Lesson #9: Animal Farm
Lesson #10: Harriet Tubman
Lesson #11: Weather
Lesson #12: Spring
Lesson #13: Circumference & Diameter
Lesson #14: Comets
Lesson #15: The Boston Tea Party
Lesson #16: The Search for Delicious
Lesson #17: Shape and Change
Lesson #18: An MI Alphabet
Lesson #19: Edgar Allen Poe
Lesson #20: MI Spelling
Lesson Plan Form
Part VI: Preparing Students for Self-directed Learning in a Differentiated Classroom
How to Organize Independent Projects
Warming-up to Self-directed Learning
Eight Steps for Doing Projects
Project Contract
Project Evaluation Form
Differentiating Homework
Part VII: Differentiating Instruction Using MI Curriculum Units
A List of Theme Possibilities
A Curriculum Outline or Mindmap
Possible MI Lessons for a Thematic Unit on Discovery
Year Long Thematic Plans
From Quarks to Quasars
Art Around the World
Our Only Earth
Thematic Planning Matrix
A Final Word
What Are Some Results of an MI Program?
What is the Teacher’s Role in a Differentiated MI Program?
Why Is an MI Model of Differentiated Instruction Successful?
References
About the Author :
Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., has 30 years of experience at all levels of education. For the Marysville School District, Bruce is a teacher of high needs youth and a teacher to teachers by coaching those new to the profession. He also serves as an associate professor of education for Antioch University Seattle, and as a frequent speaker at national conferences for Staff Development for Education (SDE). Bruce has taught teachers in each of the 50 states and in countries around the world about how to improve student learning and spark a love of learning. This is his third book.
