Week 2

The first article on "Learning Styles Debunked" surprised me a lot.  All throughout school, we were told to use different strategies that supported our strengths- in order to enhance our overall knowledge.  Of course, it is nice to be well-rounded, but why disregard learning styles all together?  This is an article I dismissed.  The next article, however, supported "Reframing the Mind" to look at different intelligences.  These intelligences are traits in our minds where we individually succeed more or less than other in.  Linguistic, musical, and naturalistic are all forms of these intelligences.  What I found interesting is how identifying and supporting these intelligences benefits student growth in learning.  I disagree with the first article because I believe there are different types of learning styles because there is a diversity amongst all people.  Not all students learn the same, so it does not make sense to teach them the same and expect unanimous results.  Some students need more assistance than others in certain subject areas, but other times students just need to be taught a lesson in the way that best suits them individually.  If an administrator asked me not to teach to learning styles and teach all students the same I would.  Then, I would teach the students using their learning styles in another lesson.  At the end of each lesson, I would have an assessment.  Based on the results, the administrator would see that students perform higher when taught to their learning styles because students are more engaged in the lesson.  These results will serve as tangible evidence to influence the administrator to see how learning style teaching could be beneficial.  If this did not do justice, I would have a private conversation with the administrator and we would come up with a solution together.