Seize Your Copy In Their Own Way Discovering And Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences Drafted By Thomas Armstrong Distributed In Booklet

The author makes a case that many of the children who have been diagnosed as learning disabled really have much to offer and have been unfairly characterized because of the way government schools function While I think there is a lot to this assertion I was really hoping to learn about the theory of multiple intelligences and how it could apply to our children I'll probably need to read on this topic in other books Also I disagree with the import of the uotes below I see the proliferation of learning disabled children as due to their exposure to inferior methods of education than to any evolution of the species to a new millennium kind of learning It's to be antiuated education for us and all the discipline and attention to detail that goes along with itCommonplace entriesOur public schools still look to the past for solutions to their educational dilemmas even as we pass into the new millennium Locked within a still archaic structure they struggle to make learning relevant to today's youth by leaning on past achievements yet discover to their dismay that millions of youngsters have already moved into the future and left them far behind The emergence of a new kind of learner has been taking place across the country over the past three decades and the schools appear to be all but blind to this plain factToday's kids appear to be processing information in a

very different way than yesterday's children Perhaps as a way of coming to grips with the sheer volume of information that enters their lives every day they've rejected the linear classifying and categorizing methods of parents and teachers and embrace instead a learning style based on uick multisensory scanning strategies It's ironic that the youngsters who appear to be most suited to the new demands of information overload could well be the so called learning disabled or attention deficit disorderedI skimmed over much of this book but came away with some really great ideas This book was a godsend when I first started homeschooling It is a book you read once and refer to many times especially if you hit a bump in the road with home learning You think you know your child You see they are struggling to master a new skilltopic but you dont know why This book gets into multiple intelligences and how to tap that potentialOnce you recognize everyone learns differently you realize why school systems fail students Public school systems reuire each student to learn the same thing at the same pace Some students cant or wont be able to do that successfully and are “labeled” often inappropriately With homeschooling the same thing can happen except you probably wont label your child if youre pushing a subject they arent interested in or you are presenting it in a way they cant receive it You do have to understand a little bit about multiple intelligences and Id recommend Frames of Mind The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner as a prereuisite We recently took on home educating our boys and I decided to read this book in an attempt to help me find ways to help our struggling learner to reach his full potential I also needed to find ways to help restore their natural love for learning'It had me hooked from the first chapter Ive just finished itpages inday a new personal record for me WOW what an amazing source of useful information It has helped me see why the system has failed our sons so miserably why it has killed their love for learning I saw many areas in which to amend my teaching strategies to better fit in with their learning styles preferences It has given me insight on how to restructure their next school year in a way that would make our home education journey less stressful and yet productiveThis is an absolute MUST read for ALL parents as well as educators I believe if all schools implemented teaching strategies that addressed ALL learning styles in the classrooms schooling in our country could be revolutionized Unfortunately regular educators care only about competence in its most traditional bookish sense reading writing science social studies Maths in boring text and worksheets Students who are talented in art music dance mechanical repair computer programming or are creative in not traditional ways wither away become the underachievers learning disabled ADHD labelledParents will be able to discover where their children fit into the system They will be able to determine whether the school is nurturing their childrens multiple intelligences Textbooks and their accompanying worksheets structuretoof all the learning in our schools whereas the part of the brain that thrives on lectures and worksheets probably takes up less thanof the total available for learning The current worksheet wasteland would be transformed and instead we would have happier less stressed children in our schools Less children would struggle through school and end up labelled learning disabled or ADDADHD instead their true gifts and abilities will be drawn out developed These stale teaching methods are referred to as being brain antagonistic and shut down potentials rather than open them upParents with children that have been labelled learning disabled or ADDADHD will receive insight into the reasons why your kids have been labelled and euip you with information ideas on how to change their learning experience It will enable you draw out their inner strengths and abilities in order to help them learnAfter reading this book parents will be aware of labelling and the affects that psychological testing can have on their children Parents will be able to make informed decisions regarding testing instead of willingly accepting educators recommendationsIn short there aredifferent kinds of intelligence and we need to teach all relevant to our children in order to help them reach their full potentialLinguistic Word Smart ability to use words effectivelyLogical Mathematical Number Smart capacity to work well with numbers and or be adept at logic or reasoningSpatial Picture Smart ability to visualise pictures in ones head or to create them in some two or three dimensional formBody kinaesthetic Body Smart using the whole body handsMusical Music Smart capacity to carry a tune remember musical melodies have good sense of rhythm or simply enjoy musicInterpersonal People Smart ability to understand and work with other peopleIntrapersonal Self Smart self understanding knowing who you are what youre good at what youre not good atNaturalist Nature Smart ability to identify the natural forms around usAddress all these areas whilst teaching your children are bound to succeed Among other things this was a great reminder that it is unlikely my son's brain works the same way mine does This is a great book for helping parents discover and encourage their children's multiple intelligences This book had some great ideas about teaching kids with various learning types Does your child have a favorite subject activity or hobby Children learn in multiple ways and educator Thomas Armstrong has shown hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers how to locate those uniue areas in each of our children where learning and creativity seem to flow with special vigorIn this fully updated classic on multiple intelligences Armstrong sheds new light on the eight ways to bloom or the eight kinds of multiple intelligences While everyone possesses all eight intelligences Armstrong delineates how to discover your child's particular areas of strength among themThe book shatters the conventional wisdom that brands our students as underachievers unmotivated or as suffering from learning disabilities attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or other learning diseases Armstrong explains how these flawed labels often overlook students who are in possession of a distinctive combination of multiple intelligences and demonstrates how to help them acuire knowledge and skills according to their sometimes extraordinary aptitudesFilled with resources for the home and classroom this new edition of In Their Own Way offers inspiration for every learning situation.