Multiple Intelligences

As far as I can tell, student learning styles and multiple intelligence studies are total bunk. The differences between them are irrelevant to a teacher's actions in the classroom. Learning styles are basically distinguished between auditory, visual, and sensory. In the course of a normal, well-designed unit plan, a teacher will engage his/her students with a variety of activities and assignments; it is almost impossible to not hit all three of these learning styles during the course of a normally designed unit. Why put the extra consideration into something you do naturally, or worry about something that lacks solid research in terms of its real effectiveness? This stuff is a fad that is taking too long to fade away.

Multiple intelligence inventories are even more ridiculous. How is it useful for a teacher to have a map of nice different intelligences? That information is too expansive, too nonsensical, and too useless for any serious consideration by an educator. The only advantage to learning style inventories is that the quizzes are kind of fun to do. Teachers can better spend their time by working with student artifacts, identifying individual student strengths and weaknesses, and executing well-targeted re-teachings.