Celebrating Every Learner: Activities and Strategies for Creating a Multiple Intelligences Classroom

Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use

This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms.

• Offers a treasury of easily implemented activities for engaging all students' multiple intelligences, from the New City School, a leading elementary school at the forefront of MI education
• Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom
• Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom
• Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter

Thomas R. Hoerr, Ph.D. is the Head of School at the New City School in St. Louis, Missouri. He is also the author of Becoming a Multiple Intelligences School, The Art of School Leadership, and School Leadership for the Future, as well as many articles and book chapters.

Sally Boggeman, Christine Wallach, and all of the other contributors are the dedicated teachers of the New City School.