Learning Styles

Elementary school classrooms to high school classrooms, they are all filled with a diverse population of learners. There are visual learners, auditory learners and more. Teaching to all the different needs of your students can be a difficult task, but it is one worth doing. I do not necessarily feel that each child needs their specific learning style to learn but a collection of all. I find that differentiating instruction is the most effective way to teach. Not only is the teacher able to reach the many different learners but show students different ways of learning.
In my classroom there are students who feel they learn the best when they recopy thier notes and then study them. The students feel that by memorizing the material they are really learning. Many of my students have previously learned that if they study the material hard enough to rememeber it for a test than they have learned it. I know this to be untrue. By introducing my students to new ways of learning I am trying to ensure that they retain the material.