In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences

Does your child have a favorite subject, activity, or hobby? Children learn in multiple ways, and educator Thomas Armstrong has shown hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers how to locate those unique areas in each of our children where learning and creativity seem to flow with special vigor. In this fully updated classic on multiple intelligences, Armstrong sheds new light on the "eight ways to bloom," or the eight kinds of "multiple intelligences." While everyone possesses all eight intelligences, Armstrong delineates how to discover your child's particular areas of strength among them. The book shatters the conventional wisdom that brands our students as "underachievers," "unmotivated," or as suffering from "learning disabilities," "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder," or other "learning diseases." Armstrong explains how these flawed labels often overlook students who are in possession of a distinctive combination of multiple intelligences, and demonstrates how to help them acquire knowledge and skills according to their sometimes extraordinary aptitudes. Filled with resources for the home and classroom, this new edition of In Their Own Way offers inspiration for every learning situation.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The Worksheet Wasteland Neglecting Talents and Abilities in Our Nation's Schools Chapter 2: Eight Ways to Bloom Discovering Your Child's Multiple Intelligences Chapter 3: Testing for Failure The Formal Test Trap Chapter 4: Dysteachia The Real Reason Your Child Isn't Thriving in School Chapter 5: Learning in Their Own Way Giving Children at Home What They May Not Be Getting at School Chapter 6: Bodywise Making Learning Physical Chapter 7: The Inner Blackboard Cultivating the Imagination in Learning Chapter 8: Teaching with Feeling Opening the Heart to Learning Chapter 9: The Learning Network Building Support Systems in Your Child's Academic Life Chapter 10: Great Expectations Creating Positive Beliefs in Your Child and Yourself Chapter 11: A Patient Attitude Honoring Your Child's Learning Rate Chapter 12: The Doors of Perception Helping Children Come Back to Their Senses Chapter 13: The Ecology of Learning Providing Your Children with a Nurturing Environment Afterword: The Learner of the Future A Parent's Guide to Multiple Intelligences: Questions Parents and Teachers Ask About Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plans and Guidelines for Teaching Your Child Anything Through Multiple Intelligences Teaching Your Child About Multiple Intelligences Books for Parents Organizations for the Eight Intelligences Learning Materials for the Eight Intelligences Books for Children in the Eight Intelligences Games That Develop the Eight Intelligences Internet Sites for Children in the Eight Intelligences Computer Software That Develops the Eight Intelligences Notes Index

About the Author :
Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., is a psychologist, learning specialist, and consultant to educational groups around the world. He has written for Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, and Parenting magazine, and is the author of nine books, including Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius and The Myth of the A.D.D. Child.