Multi-sensory approaches to reading use all the senses – touch, hearing, movement and sight – to help young children to recognise letters of the alphabet. They can make the letter shapes in sand, feel textured letters or find the right...

A teaching and learning situation where both partners (teacher and learner) enter an agreement about how the learning is to be undertaken, eg the learners will be self-directed, consult the tutor at specified times and complete the project by an agreed...

The characteristic manner by which a learner approaches a learning task. A variety of styles have been identified, usually in terms of opposites, eg convergent/divergent. The relationship between learning style and cognitive style is a debatable...

The preferred manner by which individuals perceive situations. See also cognitive style, learning...

A learning style is the method of learning particular to an individual that is presumed to allow that individual to learn best. It is commonly believed that most people favor some particular method of interacting with, taking in, and processing stimuli...

David Chadwell believes boys and girls can get through the awkward middle school years better when they're separated, learning in classrooms tailored to the learning styles of each gender.As the country's first and only statewide coordinator of single-gender education, Chadwell is helping to make South...

Wow! My column recommending that parents not pay their kids for good grades has generated a flood of e-mail, much of it disagreeing with me.For the most part, readers who took the opposing view feel that getting good grades is a child's job, and, like...

For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.Now, some computer science researchers say one solution may lie in the...

"Be sure to study for the test on Friday," one of your child's teachers is certain to say some day soon. Does your child know how? While many teachers spend some class time teaching study skills, it's not unusual for students to need more guidance...

Explores the different forms of how we retain historical data. Explores rhetoric devices students use to grasp historical concepts while connecting those events to past or future. Describes how relaying historical information in story format helps with the chronological information and cause and effect relationships.

Discusses education and the different ways in which people learn. References Freire, Noddings and the book, How People Learn. Explores the history of public education, discussing how at the turn of the 20th century, the challenge of providing mass education was seen by many as analogous to mass production in factories.

Explores the problem of teaching and learning styles. Describes how to tailor an English Language Classroom, Finding a Fit between Teaching and Learning Styles.