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Don’t Teach to Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences
Most teachers believe in some form of learning styles or multiple intelligences theories. The notion that each child learns differently, so we should adjust instruction accordingly…
Don’t Teach to Learning Styles
With 90% of our memories stored as meaning-based representations, stored independent of any modality-“not in terms of whether you saw, heard, or physically interacted with the…
Free Resources on Developmental Characteristics of Learners
Beyond teaching to the standards and teaching to students as individuals, we also need to teach to the culture and developmental characteristics of our learners. If…
Don’t Teach to the LCD
Our penchant for helping individuals can work cross-purpose to our overall mission of helping all students. In fact, we often wind up teaching to the LCD…
How to Differentiate Instruction
With the Response to Intervention (RTI) model now being incorporated into many school districts today, it has become increasingly important to help frame the differentiated instruction…
Assessment-Based Differentiated Instruction
Our understanding of the characteristics and proclivities of our students should inform both the what and the how of instruction. Consider this: students don’t know what…
Educational Fads
Teaching is, by its very nature, experimental. We teachers are just as susceptible to snake-oil sales pitches, fads, and cultural pressures as any professionals. Educational fads…