The Multiple Intelligences Theory And The Differentiated Instruction Method Of The Music Appreciation In Primary School

Music appreciation is a very important field of music education in primary school and middle school. It is the basic of the whole music learning, and it is one of the most effective ways to cultivate students’ music aesthetic ability, but at the same time, it is also the most confusing field to music teacher.That is because all of the students have different personalities, hobbies, aesthetic tastes, family backgrounds and so on. The differences between their basic music knowledge and skills are obvious, bigger than the differences between traditional important subjects such as Chinese, Math and English. Meanwhile, the students’ attention can not be sustained, listening and aesthetic abilities are being training, and they can not deeply understand the multicultural. So, in the primary school class of music appreciation, some students are absent-minded.Howard Gardner, a psychology professor of Harvard University, put forward a new theory--Multiple Intelligences In1980’s. He pointed out that everyone of us, no matter how old is he, at least has eight kinds of intelligent. They are musical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, spatial intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. The development of these intelligences are different in every person. The core of this theory of multiple intelligences is to respect the differences and treat each student equally. The theory of multiple i ntelligences, especially the music Intelligence theory giveus a new idea of music appreciation course in primary school This paper based on the problems of the current primary school music appreciation class, and according to the music intelligence theory, to reach the differentiated instruction in music appreciation of primary school.