Learning Strategies Meets Multiple Intelligences

In an earlier podcast, I addressed the theories advanced by Howard Gardner about multiple intelligences and how each of our students possesses a different combination of these intelligences. If we are going to help each student learn in ways that are best for him, then we have to help him or her find books that address those intelligences. A child that learns through music will be interested in books that tap into those intelligences and can be. used to help advance reading literacy goals. We need to learn how to individualize our programs so that each child has equal opportunity to learn in the ways that suits him or her best with tools that are adapted just for them.