Topic > Different learning styles and goals for students...

How students process information (how well they learn and how well they retain knowledge) is directly related to the individual's learning style. Teachers have long believed that if they lecture and tell students the same thing over and over, the student will learn and understand a particular scientific concept. This learning style and teaching technique was traditionally considered to be the way most people learn. We now know this is not true. Not everyone learns best with a single teaching technique. Students actually learn best through various styles: personal meaning, conceptual learning, how things work, and self-discovery. In addition to having differences in learning styles, not everyone is intelligent in the same way, individuals are intelligent to some degree in different areas. (Manner,