August 23, 2006
A Child’s Intelligence: 7 Steps to Smart Activity Choices suggests parents encourage their kids to be “smart” in their own way, focusing on their intellectual strengths. By using the current educational research, parents can 1. Assess learning style. 2. Mentor a range of activities more effectively 3. Set a plan in action. 4. Confidently resist the latest trendy activity. 5. Prepare for the inevitable senior high school resume. 6. Co-partner with their teen when it comes time for the college admissions process.
Although written by two veteran teachers, this book is not intended for the academic world. It carries both educational and parental experience. It speaks directly to parents, makes current educational research palatable and accessible in an easy to read format. A Child's Intelligence includes lively, wide-ranging examples from the teacher, and the parent’s point of view. The intent- keep the reader informed, involved, interested, inspired and occasionally amused.
This book's format includes the following:
•The latest research on multiple intelligences presented in readable, digestible form
•Interesting examples from real life kids and their parents
•Easy to read charts
•Hands-on activities that help reader to apply research to their own children
•Suggested activities matched to specific intelligences
•The do's and don'ts of mentoring with personal stories from teachers and parents
•Practical strategies for "finding the focus" from K-12 with a section for teens
•Resumes of high school seniors who have successfully used activities to develop their multiple intelligences
•College essays that demonstrate the positive role activities have played in producing a focused young person
A Child's Intelligence:7 Steps To Smart Activity Choices is the book that gives parents permission to let Johnny or Jane skip soccer practice and go to the museum to study dinosaurs and frogs, or go to dance class, art, or theatre, or learn to play the banjo.
To like reading, computers, or puzzles more than hockey. To write the music in his head or the poetry in her heart.
It helps parents celebrate the diversity of human intelligences and honor the child's basic temperament. It helps them help their child to be the winner they already are!
