Small School vs. Big School, Multiple Intellignece, and Asperger's

I couldn't resist creating a podcast around my extraordinary visit this past week to my daughter's elementary school in rural New Hampshire.  The Sullivan School has only 42 students in grades 1-5, and staff know each student real well.  I just attended an Awards ceremony held on the last day of school in which every child received an award.  Each teacher told a little story about each child and gave an award that was personalized based on the child's strengths or special characteristics.

I interviewed 3rd grade teacher, Molly Linn, who allowed me to record our brief telephone conversation a couple of days ago.  We talked about the individualized nature of the awards and also about Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence models, and even about Roger Barker's work on the advantage of small schools vs. big schools.

Click on the MP3 download below to hear this week's podcast:

Download pr20_smallschool.mp3 (2.52MB; 7mins,21secs)

Comments

[Chris Marshall]

Larry,
My 5-year-old son Patrick has Aspergers Syndrome. I am a fellow Podcaster (I have acomic book based podcast) and I decided that now that Podcasting is getting more mainstream, I went a head and Googled "Autism Podcast" and your site came up. Thank you very much for doing this. PLease provide an .xml file so I can subscribe to the feed.
Cheers!
Chris