How Each Child Learns: Using Multiple Intelligence in Faith Formation

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Summary: Good for Everyone
Review: As a former high school teacher of theology, I wish I had read this book years ago. I would have loved to teach using its novel methods. Without a doubt, I would also have loved to experience this type of education in my own faith formation as a youth. In this book, Bernadette Stankard presents an abundance of helpful research into the nine types of intelligence. What's more impressive is her practical applications of lessons and activities for each type of intelligence, each of which builds a young person's faith in a unique way. People with true faith have usually acquired it by experience, not by merely studying it. This book offers a multitude of experiences designed to nurture the seeds of faith in many different types of young people. All of them have been tested in the classroom by the author and found successful. Do your students like nature? Try the "Terrarium Terrain" exercise. Do they enjoy math? Challenge them with "The Cost of Poverty" activity. Do they appreciate creative storytelling? Invite them to try their hand at "The Gospel According to me." Kids will come to enjoy faith formation in a fresh and new way. Stankard reminds us that God has made each of us with different talents, gifts, and challenges and we each come to know God in different ways. This book respects and celebrates the God-given differences in each human being. Using this book will prove that faith formation in youth can truly be stimulating, challenging and very rewarding for students and teachers alike.

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Summary: Highly recommended reading for Christian parents
Review: Bernadette T. Stankard is a Christian minister with over thirty years' experience. In How Each Child Learns: Using Multiple Intelligence In Faith Formation, Bernadette has specifically written a book for Christian parents and religious educators that explores how theories of multiple intelligence can be applied to creatively teach religion to children. Highly recommended reading for Christian parents and educators regardless of their denominational affiliation or background, and offering practical methods for the home and the parish, How Each Child Learns is a respectful tribute to the Christian faith and the search to better understand how young minds can come to learn about God's love.

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Summary: Teacher Resource
Review: In How Each Child Learns, Stankard empowers the reader to discover and utilize her own gifts in encouraging the gifts of others. She provides practical and fun exercises for drawing out the innate intelligences held by every child. Her style is accessible, causing the reader to feel that she's made a new friend simply by reading the book. This is a resource I can use as a public school teacher, as well as a religious educator.