Know Your Strengths...And Your Weaknesses
While planning activities and assessments that allow students to demonstrate understanding via their more highly developed intelligences is important, it is also critical to provide activities and assessments which incorporate every intelligence. As you implement various assessments, talk to students about the intelligences that are targeted within them and how they can develop those intelligences, even when they are not the student's strongest.
As with the 4A Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences offers ways to view students and their learning processes. As a teacher, you must first know your own areas of strength as viewed through "Multiple Intelligences" because, in general, teachers tend to teach and assess through their own preferred methods.
A number of instruments are available for discerning areas of strength and weakness for students of all ages. These assessments are one way to gather the information needed to plan a variety of tasks so that throughout the year all students have multiple opportunities to learn and display knowledge using their strengths. Assessment information also helps teachers provide support students need as they are required to work within and strengthen their less developed intelligences.