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Learning Styles in the Classroom |
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Introduction Every person develops and uses a mixture of learning styles throughout life, often flexing and adapting styles to fit various contexts and to meet a variety of learning demands. Yet as your learning-style profile may have shown, most people favor one or two styles over the others. In this regard, styles can be compared to muscles: The more they are used and stretched, the more developed and powerful they become. Those muscles that are only minimally used will not develop fully. Also, like muscles, styles can always be strengthened through practice. |
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Lesson Material Good thinkers know that information must be looked at in various ways. For this reason educators should help students develop their unique learning-style profile, define individual strengths and weaknesses and give advice on how to balance the entire picture. Our lecture provides five excellent starting points: helping students develop specific styles, differentiating instruction, integrating curriculum, providing choices to students, and supporting students choice of styles. The supplementary materials include Collecting Classroom Examples |