On The Development And Assessment Of Multiple Intelligences Of Elementary School Students

Multiple Intelligences Theory, which was raised by Howard Gardner, has become a very influential theory on intelligence recently. It believes that intelligence is an ability of solving problem and producing product in the context of a particular culture background or society. Each people have eight or nine kinds of intelligences. School education can help students obtain the greatest success in their lives by exploit the potentialities of multiple intelligences. The development of multiple intelligences of elementary school students requires the change of the views on intelligence and student, as well as the reformation of curriculum and teaching. It needs to carry out the personalized and multiple school education, and the apprenticeship model. It aims to make the students understand and apply what they learn in their living. There are two schemes for the development of multiple intelligences. One is teaching for multiple intelligences, that is developing a kind of intelligence through all disciplines teaching and activities. The other is teaching through multiple intelligences, that is learning the same content through different routes of multiple intelligences. Correspondently, the assessment idea and method should be changed greatly. It should emphasize the intelligence-based, multiple assessment. It pursues authentic assessment, performance assessment and portfolios assessment. These assessment methods can help and improve the students by finding out their strong points and weak points.