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How to become a SuperStar student - tips for success

Since the school year has started, it is perhaps a good time to remind all students that they have what it takes to be a superstar in school. The 2008 Teacher of the Year, Michael Geisen, has a few pointers for them.

First, everyone has a blend of the seven types of intelligence as suggested by psychologist Howard Gardner. Those types of smartness are visual, body movement, musical, social, logical/mathematical, verbal, and self. Students need to recognize that there is no one way of being smart. Smartness is a blend of two or more of these basic human intelligences.

Second, no matter what kin...

 

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