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Recommended Reading
MI Strategies in the Classroom and Beyond Using Roundtable Learning
by Ellen Weber
Pearson, 2005
ISBN: 0-205-40825-7Ellen Weber continues to help teachers, professors of education, and students learn how to participate in transforming educational systems. Throughout a rich career in teaching and learning in numerous environments and in different cultures, she harvests her own experiences to share what she has been learning in this practical, thoughtful, and inspiring book that will be of great value to those in middle schools, high schools, and higher education.
She describes her "Five Steps to Smart" as a useful strategy to catalyzing greater motivation and higher achievement. First, she notes that every lesson should begin with a thought-provoking question that shifts the mind from passive to active, 2. Students set specific learning targets as guides. 3. Checklists are created to include the details of learning projects. 4. Students actively create knowledge through utilizing multiple intelligences and their unique strengths. 5. They reflect on their work and where to go from there.
The book is organized into three sections related to "round table learning" that utilizes Vygotsky's theories of learning through social interaction. The first section focuses on defining brain-based interactions and how to create shared questions for each lesson. The second area outlines ways to identify all students' gifts and ways to utilize them. The third discusses how to redefine errors as stepping stones to deeper understanding and learning. This is a book to mark up and highlight and put into practice!
Read an excerpt from this book here.
New Horizons for Learning
http://www.newhorizons.org
E-mail: info@newhorizons.org