Learning Styes and Perspectives

• School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-A Classroom Panorama

  4 Teaching/Learning Perspectives

  • What I couldn't seem to do, however, was to translate any of them into classroom use without massive systemic support and effort-
  • t Aristotle proposed that anything worthy of study could be approached from four directions, inquiring into: The That, The Why, the If, and What it is or what it means (Ross, 1923/1995
  • that all these kids will be better off for having their natural learning perspectives recognized, honored and encouraged; and that they will be better off for having seen that there are areas where they can still grow (sometimes myopically called weaknesses), and further that such growth may be aided by learning from the natural strengths of others.

• School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-One Picture is Worth A Thousand Words: Not Necessarily!

  Edmond's Learning Style Identification Exercise

• School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-SOI Adds Perceptual Development

  Bridges program-develop cognition and perceptive

  • mainly within gifted programs, a paradox implying only the gifted require cognitive development.
  • For about 15 minutes daily during the middle 7 months of the school year, all students undertake SOI activities that develop the mental abilities which teachers assume each student brings to the classroom; e.g., attention span, memory and recall, comparison/contrast thinking, process orientation, symbol decoding, contextual comprehension, etc.

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