Multiple Intelligences & Blooming Minds:
A Toolkit of Strategies for K-10 Classrooms

What is the Course About?

The workshop offers a toolkit of strategies to enhance teaching and learning.

Participants will explore how Gardner's multiple intelligences theory offers multiple entry points into the curriculum so students can demonstrate what they know and understand in different ways.

A revised Bloom's taxonomy for the new millennium shows how to encourage higher order thinking skills and problem solving to help students cope with the pace of change. The use of co-operative learning strategies improves academic outcomes, social skills and builds class cohesion. All strategies show how to differentiate your curriculum so all children, including students with learning difficulties and gifted students are appropriately challenged and actively engaged in learning.
How Will the Course Be Presented?  

The course will be workshop based and classroom oriented and will demonstrate how to implement a range of teaching and learning strategies to enhance student thinking and learning.

Outcomes of the Course:

As a result of participating in this course it is expected that teachers will gain:

  • implement strategies to create multiple entry points into the curriculum;
  • demonstrate co-operative learning strategies so all students can work successfully in groups;
  • develop student's higher order thinking and problem solving skills;
  • describe how to differentiate their curriculum to cater for gifted students and students with learning difficulties;
  • consider ways to make connections across subject boundaries through inter-disciplinary learning.
Presenter:

Toni Noble is a former teacher who is currently a Senior Lecturer in Education and Psychology at the Australian Catholic University. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Special Education and Gifted Education. Her PhD research involved school based research where she worked with all teachers in two schools to develop practical ways to differentiate their curriculum. She is co-author of Different Kids, Same Classroom, Seven Ways at Once, Book 1 and 2.
   
Dates:

Course 1 28th March
Course 2 18th June

Time: 9.00 a.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Venue:

Level 2, 99 York Street, Sydney.
Parking: Commercial parking only. Close to Town Hall & Wynyard Stations.
Target Group: Teachers K-10, teachers responsible for planning dynamic programs, teachers of gifted and talented.
No. of Participants: 30
Cost:

$155 per participant       including GST

AIS member $105

Cancellations should be in writing no later than one week prior to course to enable a refund.

Your registration will be confirmed by fax after closing date.

 
Certification: Certificates will be made available to all participants who fulfil the course requirements.

Please note: AIS Professional Development courses can be accumulated to apply for University accreditation.
Closing Date: One week before chosen course.

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Multiple Intelligences & Blooming Minds

Course 1 - 28th March             Course 2 - 18th June

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