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This article delves into the idea that a successful learning experience that has a positive relationship with the student must be individualized. Every student is different, and every student has unique talents and strategies of learning. The author explains that Gardner's Multiple Intelligences should be applied in the classroom. The current school system only fits linguistic and mathematic learners, and forces the other types to fit in anyway, damaging their self esteem and promotes a negative relationship that child has with school. If teachers took advantage of the multiple intelligences to approach learning, then all students would learn more efficiently and society would benefit from these students' contributions; not losing them as casualties to our current school system.

A brief (11-page) summation of a new way of teaching called Learning in Depth, created by Kieran Egan. The general idea is that in first grade a child will be given a simple, broad topic such as spiders or rocks. Then, that child will study and do projects on that subject for the next 12 years of their school career. It's quite radical, but I think it has a chance of revolutionizing the way we learn. Some of the benefits that they mention are its capacity to build a community of scholars and experts, its emphasis on individual responsibility through independent research, and the fact that it gives the students something to be proud of (their expansive knowledge). I'm especially interested in this idea because I have begun to question the depth of the learning we receive in school and this seems to be at least a STEP in the right direction.

I know that not everyone is sold on our Mobile Learning program, and I find this article really does a nice job of illustrating how the iPads can be used effectively to improve the learning experience, and I suspect IGSS will be one place where we see some of these ideas come to light at NTHS.

A Montessori school is a type of school that implements the idea of alternative learning. This type of learning is embraced on 6 continents and all over the United States. The ideology behind this system encourages an environment with more freedom and individuality.

There is a difference between education and schooling that was brought to my attention by this piece. To go to school and learn is a separate action from receiving an education. Education is a self-initiated action, an endeavor undertaken to better understand the world around you and grow as a person. Trough education t You learn the value of human life and how to think as an individual. Schooling is a task controlled by others, where you are fed others opinions and others ideas and it is for the purpose of others. Gatto argues that the problem with education in America is that we are schooling our children rather than educating them.

This study on the effect teacher and peer relationships have on academic achievement is rather wordy and full of citations, but it has interesting implications about the learning environment. It connects a student's social life to the classroom by considering students of different ages and how they interact with others.

This essay discusses the value of a discussion based education. It argues that class discussions teach students how to learn as opposed to a lecture based class which emphasizes the regurgitation of content. Especially relevant to seniors as the article also touches on the economics of college and the value of small classes over large lectures.

On this page, it discusses Howard Gardner, a Harvard graduate, and his philosophy of Multiple Intelligences. All six different intelligences, according to Gardner, are equally important and should all be explored in schools. I find this interesting and thought provoking because in many schools, only mathematical and linguistic intelligences are explored and expanded upon, even though not every student learns best that way.