The third Chapter of Multiple Intelligences goes in some way you can assess what a students stronger intelligences may be. It gives a number of good examples and ways one might do this. For instance, examining the way they misbehave in class, what they do in their free-time, talking with other teachers or the students parents, and setting up special activities.
Before this chapter I had assumed that I would be able to place a students intelligence area simply from my normal assessments and observing some of their actions in the classroom. In retrospect that is a silly thought because one can not simply learn where a student may excel or not from just one classroom. This has changed my view on how I can better get to know my students, and use that to my advantage when writing lesson plans and units. Also, it gave a great idea when it came to the special activities in order to determine where the whole classrooms strengths may lie, my only concern with this however is how often will there be time to make 8 activities that could assess each intelligence, while trying to teach a class period effectively? Although this may seem shaky, im sure that in the course of an entire unit something like this may possible, and in the long run a little lost time in one unit to learn more of my students may increase efficiency in later units.
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