If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and ...

In making important decisions about your child’s education it makes sense to first determine what type of learner she is. If you notice that moving helps information sink in, your child may be a ...

In You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner, the education scholar debunks the idea that everyone has an optimal “learning style.” What led you to this subject? I once had a student who wrote lesson plans ...

The mother went to visit her daughter's 1st grade classroom. As she entered the class, she saw her daughter tracing the number eight in shaving cream. Her teacher explained to the mother that she felt ...

A basic principle of education is that everyone learns at a different pace and has a different learning style. Visual learners learn best through diagrams, pictures, and reading text. Auditory ...

In any business training session, some people will quickly pick up the information being presented while others will struggle. Rather than just accepting that some of your employees can't learn what ...

It is part of the received wisdom of popular psychology: People have different learning styles. You reach “auditory learners” by explaining it to them verbally, “visual learners” by showing them ...

Many people believe that they have a dominant learning style, and that it’s tied to academic and career success. But the science to support this theory is weak. Teaching trends come and go, but one ...