Learning styles, to be clear, don’t help us “differentiate” in a classroom. It lets/makes you put all the students into one of four or so boxes (depending on which learning styles you acknowledge as “real”), and then you teach to the learning style — not to the student. What I do is actually more responsive than that, but it also requires the students to respond to me. Ideally, isn’t that collaborative effort what education should really be? And if it is, then why do we do use every institutional lever we have to stop it from happening?
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7moSometimes the very things meant to give us insight into our students are what makes us stop seeing them. You are so right, Jeffrey!