Teaching for Intelligence II

Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D., is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento. He is Co-Founder of the Institute for Habits of Mind and Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Coaching. He served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, and an assistant superintendent for instruction in the Office of the Sacramento County Superintendent of Schools and as the director of educational programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has made presentations and conducted workshops in all 50 states as well as on six of the seven continents Active in many professional organizations, Art served as president of the California Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and was the National President of Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, from 1988 to 1989. He was the recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Urban Alliance in 2010.

Introduction: New Perspectives on Intelligences Section 1: Flexibility in Thinking: The Capacity to Shift Perspectives, to Generate Alternate Approaches, and to Change One's Mind 1. Systems Change in Education - Peter Senge 2. Unleashing the Power of Perceptual Change - Geoffrey Caine and Renate Caine 3. Changing Curriculum Means Changing Your Mind - Arthur L. Costa Section 2: Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations: The Capacity to Draw Forth Prior Knowledge and Transfer it to New Situations 4. Learning and Transfer--A Tautology - Meir Ben-Hur 5. What Do We Know From Brain Research? - Pat Wolfe and Ron Brandt 6. Art for the Brain's Sake - Robert Sylwester Section 3: Metacognition: The Human Capacity to be Aware of and Reflect on Our Own Thinking 7. Memory, The Thing I Forget With - Robin Fogarty 8. Creativity Is a Decision - Robert J. Sternberg 9. Revisiting Effective Teaching - Pat Wolfe 10. Multiple Intelligences and Reading Instruction - Donna Ogle Section 4: Questioning and Problem Posing: Innate Human Curiosity and the Capacity for Healthy Skepticism 11. The Mad Dash to Compute: Enriching or Eroding Intelligence? - Jane M. Healy 12. Educators Need to Know About the Human Brain - Ron Brandt 13. Raising the Ceiling for All Students: School Improvement From a High-End Learning Perspective - Joseph S. Renzulli Section 5: Striving for Accuracy, Precision and Elegance: The Human Yearning for Craftsmanship 14. Learning Standards - Kay Burke 15. What Sorts of Standards for Teachers? Focusing on Exemplary Elementary Teaching - Jeni Pollack Day and Richard L. Allington 16. Constructivist Assessment in Early Childhood Education - Clifford Hill 17. Test Success in the Brain-Compatible Classroom - Carolyn Chapman and Rita King Section 6: The Humility of Continuous Learning: The Human Capacity for Self-Renewal 18. Challenging Mathematics for Young Children - Herbert P. Ginsburg, Robert Balfanz, and Carole Greenes 19. Reinventing Our Literacy Programs: Books, Basics, Balance - Dorothy S. Strickland 20. Mediated Learning Experience: Professor Reuven Feuerstein Responds to Some Critical Questions - Reuven Feuerstein 21. Learning to Learn: The Cognitive Enrichment Advantage Approach - Donna Wilson and Katherine H. Greenberg Authors Acknowledgments Index