How Can I Use Knowlege of the Learner to Become a Better Teacher?

This question has been covered a lot in this course. The payne reading we did and responded to focused a lot on understanding the different minds of students and how that knowlege will ultimately make us better teachers. It tried to show us how to appeal to different learning styles, whether thos ehave evolved because of class differences or some other reason. The discussions we have in class about seating arrangments also have let me see how teachers have to think about everything they do in relation to how their students are going to feel about it. Many of the activities we've done have led to a discussion like this which shows how in depth teachers must think about their students viewpoint in order to be really efficient.

I think I'd like to talk about this in relation to homework, because I know that students often hate homework and end up with a ton of it between all of their classes. I wonder how a teacher thinks about this and how one comes to assigning "the right amount of homework".