How does knowledge of the way people learn relate to the experience of being a teacher?

Knowing the different ways people learn is so important when you are a teacher. You have to understand the all kids learn differently. In my field work in a 3rd grade classroom yesterday morning we were working on a vocabulary assignment. The students had to read a story and then answer questions about the story and got clues as to what some of the vocabulary words from the story were and then had to list them out. (More difficult to explain on this post that it really was.) After the students had completed their work they were to bring them to me and I would correct it and tell them which answers were incorrect so they could go back and fix it to be correct.
A lot of the students did really well with reading the story and remembering the different details of it to answer the questions and figure out the vocabulary words. It was interesting to watch as the kids did their work together in groups or with partners to figure out what each of the vocabulary words meant. Some kids would act them out to try to explain to another person, some would just give up and ask their neighbor to tell them the answers, and others would try to come up with examples of what it could mean. I think that without meaning to, this assignment used all of the different learning theories, just by letting the kids attempt to do the assignments in groups that helped one another to learn.