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Teacher's Guide
About this guide
Our curriculum consultant for this issue was Marte Peet, a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at Northshore's Lockwood Elementary. An experienced curriculum writer, she is known for the practicality and creativity of her materials. Recently named Washington State's Council for the Social Studies 1997 Social Studies Teacher of the Year, Marte shares her ideas with teachers throughout Washington and the rest of the United States. She has written curriculum for the American Promise and the East Asian Resource Center of the University of Washington.
Marte's teaching tips
"Students come into our classrooms with a variety of talents and gifts. Our responsibility as teachers is to cultivate those talents and allow them avenues of enrichment for learning. Howard Gardner, author of Frames of the Mind, suggests that our students have multiple intelligences. In his research he has identified seven different kinds of intelligence. These strategies as designed to appeal to and engage each of the multiple intelligence's. As we expose students to a variety of activities we not only allow them to express their knowledge in a format that is comfortable to them but we encourage them to extend their talents in new areas of expression."Thanks to Tarry Lindquist and my students for their inspirations."
Curriculum guide contents
- For students who love to learn with pictures, charts and art
- For students who learn through moving, creating and social activity
- For students who love rhythm and song
- For students who love to manipulate numbers
- For students who like looking for patterns, relationships and logical explanations
- For students who love language
- For students who enjoy learning by interaction
- For students who like to reflect upon their learning
