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learning styles is bunk
Not for me it isn’t
https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/articles/tackling-the-learning-styles-myth
https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/four-reasons-avoid-learning-styles-one-alternative
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-myth-of-learning-styles/557687/
one of his teachers in particular disapproved of his home reading for the same reasons.
Sorry, I don't understand this. Why would a teacher disapprove of a child learning, surely that's the whole point?
They also understand that they learn different approaches (strategies) to eg. solving mathematical problems and that some people connect better with some strategies than others.
I'm glad you said this, it's something I've thought for a while. Different people's brains work in different ways - mine certainly does, I'm not neurotypical. At school in Maths we used to get taught methods for doing things and I'd often find myself thinking "that makes no sense" and would come up with different approaches.
One thing that always stuck in my mind was in a Computing lesson at college once. The lecturer had given us an example algorithm for something, it was like three quarters of a page long. Something about it didn't sit right with me, so I fiddled about with it and managed to rewrite it in about four lines. I nudged my mate, went "is this right?" He looked at it for a bit, went, "shit, yeah." I stuck my hand up and told the lecturer. He was like, "no, that can't possibly be right." We were both insistent, he went through it on the board trying to break it, and couldn't. In the end he gave it back to the class as "Alan's Algorithm (experimental)." My point here isn't my AWESOMENESS but rather just as an example of how kids' brains can fire differently.
I see this still today when training apprentices. Teaching say IP subnetting, which can be a tricksy thing to get your head round, I make a point of teaching it myself and also getting a couple of network engineers to do it. The real engineers will teach it in the Cisco way, I do it in way that makes sense in my head as I'm not a network engineer and know what I know by dint of working it out. I've had trainees tell me that my way didn't make a jot of sense and they really got it when Tom went through it, and have had others tell me that they'd read books and listened to engineers but it only finally clicked when I went through it. Neither method is superior, but exposure to multiple teaching methods and approaches has been massively helpful to them.
One of my 8 yr olds’ recent pieces of homework. The task was ‘create something to do with ancient Egypt in 3D’.
That's brilliant. Fair play to her.
Not for me it isn’t
Whatever your view, or indeed linked articles position, I certainly am more kinaesthetic and visual than I am auditory. VAK is a moot point and like Growth Mindset there will always be developments and differing views in teaching styles.
My point however was that homework is not a bad thing in itself, but how often is it that homework consists of hastily printed worksheets from the internet, completed by frustrated parents and marked by teachers over a bottle of wine or two 😉
I am sick of eating cake - it's all she does! She makes so many she doesn't even use the recipe book anymore – ast week she make a three-tier 'surprise' cake - the middle section had a hole cut in the middle so when it's cut open sweets fall out. 🙂
I am trying to get her to enter Junior Bake-off.
Whatever your view, or indeed linked articles position, I certainly am more kinaesthetic and visual than I am auditory. VAK is a moot point and like Growth Mindset there will always be developments and differing views in teaching styles.
Don't get me started on Growth Mindset... 😉
Don’t get me started on Growth Mindset
Just tell your boss you can't do it........yet