More than 1,000 specific ideas are provided to help teachers accurately assess students' academic progress in math, language arts, history, science, social studies, and practical and fine arts. “Student Watch” assessment instruments are provided so that teachers may observe and score students involved in various activities and learning tasks. Practical prescriptive ideas on how to teach to varying intelligence strengths are offered. Teachers will learn to document and assess students' work in the midst of daily classroom activities using six practical models: student portfolios, reflective journals and logs, transfer strategies, metacognitive process-folios, anecdotal reports, and domain projects.

Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment: Solving the Assessment Conundrum

Children's Books

Lazear, David

Education & Reference

Zephyr Press

Teachers will expand students' knowledge of Multiple Intelligences with engaging activities that can work individually or in groups. This handy resource includes activities to build kinesthetic body awareness; deep hearing, listening, and understanding; linguistic humor; mathematical skills in everyday settings; and group dynamics. These activities can be integrated into content area classes and into the teaching of thinking skills, cooperation, self-awareness, and special needs programs.

Intelligence Builders for Every Student: 44 Exercises to Expand Multiple Intelligences in Your Classroom

Encouraging teachers to step beyond the boundaries of the traditional linguistic-mathematical paradigm of assessment, this resource shows how using MI-based rubrics is the key to building authentic and intelligence-fair assessments. Provided here are 80 MI-based rubrics guidelines that can be applied and adapted to students’ performances using the various intelligences. There are more than 240 questions to ask when evaluating students’ MI-based performances and their understanding of the required material. In addition, the guide offers real classroom examples of MI-based assessment and rubrics that have been used by teachers.

The Rubrics Way: Using Multiple Intelligences to Assess Understanding

This resource will help teachers integrate multiple intelligences (MI) into their existing curriculum to produce a much deeper understanding of concepts and a higher level of skill development. Students will be better prepared for life outside the classroom. By integrating MI into the curriculum, teachers will be helping students with key life and work skills needed to live productive lives in the 21st century. Four practical models are explored: "The Year-Long Curriculum Journey," "Unit Stretching," "MI Learning Centers," and "Schoolwide Focus." Each model contains full instructions and a blank template, an example of the model at elementary, middle, and high school levels, academic objectives and outcomes for each example at each level, an evaluation of strengths and weaknesses for each model, and an overview or commentary.

The Intelligent Curriculum: Using Multiple Intelligences to Develop Your Students' Full Potential

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Chicago Review Press

Multiple intelligence theory holds that intelligence is not a single, static quality that can be reflected in an IQ score; rather, there are at least eight ways of knowing or being smart. This book helps educators fully understand how multiple intelligence theory can improve their educational practice and how to share the benefits with students and parents. A series of 20 activities leads teachers through the process of helping students become more aware of their own multiple intelligences and how they can be applied at school and at home. These exercises, presented as copy-ready handouts, will assist students in determining their intelligence strengths and developing their weaker intelligences. In addition to the 20 base exercises, extension activities on each topic are provided.

Pathways of Learning: Teaching Students and Parents About Multiple Intelligences

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences