If you haven’t heard about Howard Gardner’s Multiple intelligence theory, or if you haven’t had time yet to really get into it, here is a site to start : you will find information about the theory, and also ideas of how this theory can apply to your teaching.
The address given in the article for « Variations on a Theme: How Teachers Interpret MI Theory » no longer works, it is now:
http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/199709/campbell.html
and it offers useful hints of activities designed to fit the pupils’s
different learning styles.
And if you want to learn more about MI, go to this excellent site, with videos from classes, interviews and chats with Howard Gardner and teachers who use MI in their classes.
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month1/