Information from: http://www.cookps.act.edu.au/mi_intra.htm
Intrapersonal Learner : "The Individual"
Intrapersonal intelligence is the ability to gain access to understand one's inner feelings, dreams and ideas. Intrapersonal Intelligence is personal knowledge turned inward to the self. This form of intellect entails the ability to understand one's own emotions, goals and intentions.Although it is difficult to assess who has this capacity and to what degree, evidence can be sought in students' uses of their other intelligences - how well they seem to be capitalizing on their strengths, how cognisant they are of their weaknesses and how thoughtful they are about the decisions and choices they make. The two personal intelligences are, perhaps, the hardest to observe and at the same time, are the most important to success in any societal domain.
Hi, I'm Elizabeth and my main strength is Intrapersonal Intelligence because I:
Can express strong like or dislike or particular activities
Can communicate feelings
Am aware of strengths and weaknesses
Am confident of my own abilities
Set appropriate goals
Work toward ambition
Am good at understanding myself and focusing inward on feelings and dreams
Am good at following my instincts
Am good at pursuing my interests and goals
Like being original
I like to:
Write poems
Family histories
Diaries
Can do art works
Autobiography

I learn best by:Working alone Individualised projectsSelf-paced instruction Having own spaceWhen I grow up I could be a:Poet AutobiographerWriter ArtistCounsellor PsychologistSpiritualist PhilosopherDiarist

Information available from:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/Brain/mult_intell.htm
Bodily Kinesthetic
This intelligence accords the ability to engage competently in sports, dancing, work and any area where physical mobility is necessary. Such people also enjoy trekking, swimming, gymnastics, the rough and tumble of play and generally the physical sensation of using their body. They are also adept at "do it yourself: activities, and exhibit a need to physically touch or handle something where such manipulation leads to greater understanding of the subject under scrutiny. Other activities enjoyed through this intelligence are handicrafts, sculpture and using hand gestures to express themselves. Such people are literally "hands on" types who would not bother much about systematically going through an instruction manual prior to tackling a new learning experience.

Interpersonal
People in possession of this intelligence are good at communicating with others, and often excel at sales, marketing, politics, teaching, training, facilitating and mediating. They enjoy being in the company of other people, either in connection with work or socially. Team sports are preferred to individual ones such as swimming and running. These individuals would commonly have several, very close friends, and are sympathetic to helping others. They exhibit no hesitation in taking the lead, but also prefer to discuss problems with others in preference to going it alone.

Beginning a lesson
To begin a lesson, it is crucial to immediately engage the students with something interesting or fun. Students need to value their education and actually want to learn. They need to think that you are going to teach something worthwhile and that they will enjoy the lesson.
An important idea to remember is that students will rise to the expectations you set them. If you believe they will do well then they are on the way to doing so. Conversly, if you don't think your students can achieve then they will not achieve.

I think Constructivist education is based on a hands on learning approach that allows students to work with concrete examples and to be in charge of their own learning. It allows students to experience and therefore discover for themselves rather than being "told". This experience has allowed me to really understand blogging because I am actually doing it and discovering for myself and with the group how it works. I think I will be much more likely to remember what I have learnt today than if I was listening to a lecture on blogging.

http://www.chariho.k12.ri.us/curriculum/MISmart/MImapclrDef1.GIF

This blog will discuss educational theories.

Interesting information on constructivist learning theories:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_%28learning_theory%29#Constructivist_theory
History
In past centuries constructivist ideas were not widely valued due to the perception that children's play was seen as aimless and of little importance. Jean Piaget did not agree with these traditional views, however. He saw play as an important and necessary part of the student's cognitive development and has provided scientific evidence for his views. Today, constructivist theories are influential throughout much of the so-called informal learning sector. One example is the Investigate Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. Here visitors can engage in open ended investigations of real natural history specimens reaching towards self selected goals.Some historical figures who influenced constructivism:
Immanuel Kant 1724-1804
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who strongly influenced modern educational theory through his book Emile: Or, On Education
John Dewey
Jerome Bruner
Constructivist theory
Formalization of the theory of constructivism is generally attributed to Jean Piaget, who articulated mechanisms by which knowledge is internalized by learners. He suggested that through processes of accommodation and assimilation, individuals construct new knowledge from their experiences. Assimilation occurs when individuals' experiences are aligned with their internal representation of the world. They assimilate the new experience into an already existing framework. Accommodation is the process of reframing one's mental representation of the external world to fit new experiences. Accommodation can be understood as the mechanism by which failure leads to learning. When we act on the expectation that the world operates in one way and it violates our expectations, we often fail. By accommodating this new experience and reframing our model of the way the world works, we learn from the experience of failure.
It is important to note that constructivism itself does not suggest one particular pedagogy. In fact, constructivism describes how learning happens, regardless of whether the learner is leveraging their experiences to understand a lecture or attempting to design a model airplane. In both cases, the theory of constructivism suggests that learners construct knowledge. Constructivism as a description of human cognition is often confused with pedagogic approaches that promote learning by doing.

Social constructivism
In recent decades, constructivist theorists have extended the traditional focus on individual learning to address collaborative and social dimensions of learning. It is possible to see social constructivism as a bringing together of aspects of the work of Piaget with that of Bruner and Vygotsky (Wood 1998: 39).