Integrating Curricula With Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads » (2nd Edition)

Robin Fogarty is president of Robin Fogarty and Associates, Ltd., a minority-owned educational publishing/consulting company. A leading proponent of the thoughtful classroom, Fogarty has trained educators throughout the world in curriculum, instruction, and assessment strategies. She has taught at all levels, from kindergarten to college, served as an administrator, and consulted with state departments and ministries of education in the United States, Puerto Rico, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Great Britain, Singapore, Korea, and the Netherlands. Fogarty has published articles in Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, and the Journal of Staff Development. She is the author of numerous books, including Ten Things New Teachers Need to Succeed, Second Edition (Corwin Press 2007), From Staff Room to Classroom (Corwin Press 2007), Literacy Matters, Second Edition (Corwin Press 2007), and the Nutshell Collection, which includes How to Differentiate Learning, Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference, Nine Best Practices That Make the Difference, Close the Achievement Gap, A Look at Transfer, and The Adult Learner. Fogarty received her doctorate in curriculum and human resource development from Loyola University Chicago.

The authors demonstrate how to develop higher-order thinking, mindful decision making, and productive problem-solving skills in all students and provide a six-step process for developing thematic learning units.

Foreword by Howard Gardner
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Why's and Wherefore's
A Look at the Book
1. Theories
Caine and Caine's Twelve Principles
From the Tower: Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
From the Field: Multiple Intelligences
From the Tower: Fogarty's Models of Curriculum Integration
From the Field: Curriculum Integration
Differentiated Instruction
Frames of Mind - Grid Talk
2. Teams
Teams Rap
List of Words (Bombardment)
Jagged Profile Activities
Jagged Profile Implications
Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities
Forming Teams: Top Down or Bottom Up?
Beginning the Conversation: It's a Start!
Teaming Conference
Team Meetings
Guide on the Side: Facilitating the Team or PLC
3. Themes
Themes as Organizing Centers
Themes as Catalysts
Thematic Teaching Theorists
T-H-E-M-E-S
Basic Models
Introduction to Tandems - Themes
Elementary Lesson: "Miss Mary Mack"
Middle School Lesson: Africa - South of the Sahara
High School Lesson: Medieval Europe During the Black Death
Matrix Mixer
4. Threads
Reform for the Twenty-First Century
Problem Solving Becomes the Thread
Life Skills
Basic Models
Introduction to Tandems - Threaded
Elementary Lesson: Threaded Model: Prediction
Middle School Lesson: Threaded Model: Cause and Effect
High School Lesson: Threaded Model: Communication
Kids Incorporated and the Cemetery Study
Authors' Note
The Tri-Assessment Model
Rubric for IntegratingLearning
Using the Tri-Assessment Model
Speech Fugue: Elementary
Appendix: Miscellaneous Tools
Bibliography
Index