Learning Styles
Explore ways to vary approaches to learning and take into account students' learning needs and preferences.
Multiple Intelligences Theory: Widely Used, Yet Misunderstood
One of the most popular ideas in education is applied in ways that its creator never intended.21.3kMultiple Intelligences: What Does the Research Say?
Proposed by Howard Gardner in 1983, the theory of multiple intelligences has revolutionized how we understand intelligence. Learn more about the research behind his theory.46.8kTeaching Good Study Habits, Minute by Minute
With clear goals, timed exercises, and games, parents can help design home-study habits by tailoring them to their students' visual, kinesthetic, musical, or social strengths.5.8kHow Learning Profiles Can Strengthen Your Teaching
Here's a heretical notion: learning profiles can actually benefit students. Blogger John McCarthy shares his tips.5.5kBig Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Multiple Intelligences
Edutopia revisits its 1997 interview with the Harvard University professor about multiple intelligences and new forms of assessment.9kAre Learning Styles Real - and Useful?
We've collected nine varying opinions from learning experts about whether the idea of learning styles is valid and a useful addition to a teacher's toolkit.2.7kMyth-Busting Differentiated Instruction: 3 Myths and 3 Truths
With delivery of instruction, one size does not fit all. John McCarthy launches his differentiated instruction series by busting three common myths about DI.2.7k15+ Readiness Resources for Driving Student Success
Students learn when ready, but not everyone reaches that point simultaneously. Discover resources to help meet the readiness needs of all your students.3k4 Tips to Build Student Confidence
Edutopia blogger Matt Levinson, recognizing that students get overwhelmed by unfamiliar material and choke up on assessments, offers four confidence-building strategies: verbalizing, brain dumps, non-linear thinking creativity.2.1kWhat Works for Differentiating Instruction in Elementary Schools
How you can start personalizing learning in 5 minutes, 5 days, 5 weeks, 5 months, and beyond.2.7kStudents Matter: 3 Steps for Effective Differentiated Instruction
Education consultant and guest blogger John McCarthy advocates for student-centered education via three strategies for differentiated instruction: knowing students' strengths, involving them in planning, and leveraging the strengths of fellow educators.1.2kUse Formative Assessment to Differentiate Instruction
Educators use frequent formative assessments to determine the needs of each student at Forest Lake Elementary School.1.8kThere's No Time to Differentiate: Myth-Busting DI, Part 2
Make time for differentiated instruction with small learning teams, daily formative assessments, and managed activities that differentiated content, process, and products.897Reading with Pictures: Serious Learning Through Comics
Edutopia blogger David Cutler shares his conversation with Josh Elder, creator of Reading With Pictures, about using comics as a strategy for engaging students to construct meaning while interacting with the pictures and text.653