We talked about two different things today in class. The first half we talked about students with special needs. We discussed IDEA, which is Individual with Disabilities Education Act. This is a law that states that schools must provide student with disabilities with the proper accommodations to be successful in school. To do this the schools write up an IEP or Individualized Education Plan. From there we talked about what it meant to be retarded and gifted. Being retarded just means you are slow in mental and social processes. Gifted means a student is more advanced in a certain subject or many subjects. This led the discussion to skipping students and holding them back, which I disagree with I think there is a better solution, I am not sure of what is it but there must be one out there. The next topic we talk about in class was 5 different intelligence theories. This we did in groups.
1. Spearman’s g = General Intelligence
2. Catell’s Fluid and Crystallized = Fluid intelligence changes or evolves and crystallized does not change but it can be added to.
3. Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory = 3 Factors of intelligence, environmental context, Prior evidence, and cognitive Processes.  
4. Distributed Intelligence = thinking is facilitated by objects, technology, and symbols of ones culture.
5. Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences = there are 8 intelligences, most important is interpersonal.  

This topic must be one of the most significant topics we have discussed. We are going to need to now how to teach are students since all are at a different level of intelligence. Also they all learn differently, we can incorporate Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences to help each one of our students learn. Since teaching is all about the success of your students, you are going to want you student to learn the most amount they can from your teaching. As a teacher I will need to change things up a bit to get them to understand at their own individual levels.