Intelligence is fluid and can be learned and improved upon.  And as an educator, keeping my own intelligences skills honed, is the best way to motivate students and collaborate with them so they can learn as much as they want!

Motivation to learn is so important to the learner.  Being able to provide a variety of learning modalities to reach as many students as possible is an important goal to help students succeed in their learning outcomes.  Using case studies and real-life situations provides a broad canvas for students to apply learning in their own ways, with their own curiosities and sense of accomplishments.

Emotional intelligence/learning is critical to academic learning.  In my profession of nursing education, there is huge emphasis on the synthesis of knowledge (facts, etc., ) but without the emotional maturity to process this and apply it to the actual patient and their needs with some accuracy and commitment, patients can actually suffer the consequences!