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Discovering Your Child's Preferred Learning Style
What are Learning Styles? Every child is born ready to learn. Yet children (and adults) generally have a preferred ...
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Multiple Intelligences: Understanding Your Child's Learning Style
What are "Multiple Intelligences?" An inside look into Dr. Howard Gardner's theories and what they could mean to your ...
Source: Education.com
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Supporting Inclusive Learning Environments
Supporting Inclusive Learning EnvironmentsOpportunities for learning occur as part of typical life activities, and ...
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How People Learn (and What Technology Might Have to Do With It)
At an educational conference last spring, I attended a session focused on the potential of instructional technology ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Attending to Learning Styles in Mathematics and Science Classrooms
We all have our own ways of doing things, from washing dishes to planning a trip. The preferences, tendencies, and ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Learning How to Study
Students are often asked to remember content-area material that they’ve read for a discussion, to take a test, or ...
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Cognitive Styles and Dispositions
Students with the same intelligence levels often approach classroom tasks and think about classroom topics differently. ...
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What is Learning Style?
When a child is ill, a competent physician examines more than just the part of the anatomy that hurts—the throat, ...
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Overview of the Learning Theories
Understanding how students learn, and particularly how they learn to read and write, influences the instructional ...
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Students Benefit from Learning How to Learn
A teacher’s primary job is to teach content—content specific to a particular subject and specific to ...
Source: Learning Forum International
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A Lag in Development or a Learning Disability?
Children develop at their own pace and even with rich and varied opportunities to increase vocabulary and acquire and ...
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The Role of RTI in Grade Retention
Having a child repeat a grade is a very serious decision, with huge (and unfortunately, not always positive) ...
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Gender and Mathematics Learning
Less women enroll in advanced courses in mathematics and pursue careers in mathematics and science than men (Leder, ...
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Learning Styles
A most important characteristic of becoming an effective, caring educator is the ability and commitment to recognize ...
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Cognitive Learning Styles
Cognitive style theorists stress that school tasks can contribute to learning disabilities when they require students ...
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Hispanic-American Students and Learning Style
This digest identifies cultural values that may impact the learning processes of Hispanic-American students, reviews ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Self-Directed Learning
The concept of Self-Directed Learning (SDL) is one which educators have investigated and discussed for many years. ...
Source: Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Developing Your Child's IEP
Being a parent is the most wonderful-and hardest-job in the world. If you have a child with special needs, your job is ...
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Are Learning Styles a Myth?
Do learning styles such as kinesthetic, auditory, and visual really exist? Find out what the learning style debate is...
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Tap into Your Child's Talents to Master Math
Is your child a visual or a kinesthetic learner? Here's how to use your child's strengths to build math skills at home.
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Developing Your Child's IEP - Deciding Your Child's Placement
What is placement? How is my child's placement decided? Once the IEP team has decided what services your child needs,...
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The Tracking Debate
A sharp debate has developed around the nation over ability grouping and tracking. Most multicultural education...
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How Multisensory Instructional Packages Facilitate Academic Achievement
Multisensory Instructional Packages are self-contained teaching units that appeal to students with no perceptual...
