Final

What?
(How do children learn?)
All students don't clearly fit the learning mold. I know there are some students that are bright, but they don't excel on tests. Gardner claim’s that there are several different kinds of intelligences (Intrapersonal, Linguistic, Logical-mathematical, Musical, Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, and Interpersonal). He has shown me, and others involved with teaching and learning, a way of beginning to understand how those students learn in different ways. The key was to focus on what they could do well, instead of what they could not do. It is very important as a teacher to take those individual differences among the students very seriously and to maintain a deep interest in how their minds are different from others to be able to help them learn and use their minds according to their ability.
So What?
(How does that impact the way I teach?)
An awareness of multiple-intelligence theory has motivated me as a teacher to want to find more ways to teach and evaluate my students so that they will be successful in the classroom and in life. This will aid me in my task of designing lesson plans that will use all or several of the intelligences in my lessons and asking student opinions about the best way to teach and learn certain topics. Students can learn to initiate and manage complex projects when they are creating student projects. Assessments are designed to allow students to show what they have learned. Sometimes this takes the form of allowing each student to decide the way he or she will be assessed, while meeting the teacher's criteria for quality. By doing so, this will allow students to gain mastery of their valued skill gradually, with effort and discipline over time.
Now What?
(What do I still need to learn and explore to teach?)
Having a better understanding of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, is a way to learn and explore students so that I can better understand the learners in my midst. By teaching I can allows students to safely explore and learn in many ways, and I can help students direct their own learning. As a teacher I can help students understand and appreciate their strengths, and identify real-world activities that will stimulate more learning.