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Peer reviewedLoper, Sue – Educational Leadership, 1989
A teacher reports on helpful advice she received from a colleague when she started teaching: to teach students in the cognitive mode in which they learn best (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, or tactile). (TE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Dimensional Preference, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textStockman, Ida J. – 1986
The paper describes an innovative treatment approach to severe learning disabilities in use in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The multisensory approach is based on the assumption that learning disabled children have perceptual cognitive deficits. Reality based problem-solvng events connected with tactile-kinesthetic input become the primary foci of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1983
This guidebook is based on research on the human brain and the way it processes information. It is noted that research on the learning process has studied the differing functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This research supports the theory that students are inclined to learn through different modalities (tactual/kinesthetic,…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cerebral Dominance, Class Organization, Cognitive Style
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1983
This guidebook is based on research on the human brain and the way it processes information. It is noted that current research on the learning process has investigated the differing functions of the left and right brain hemispheres. This research supports the theory that students are inclined to learn through different modalities…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cerebral Dominance, Class Organization, Cognitive Style
Peer reviewedGregg, Madeleine – Journal of Geography, 1997
Outlines a variety of activities using each of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences to teach map reading skills. The Multiple Intelligences are logical/mathematical, linguistic, musical, bodily/kinesthetic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Includes multiple activities for teaching six key ideas and four skills. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cartography, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Geography
Lazear, David G. – 1992
Over the past 50 years, brain researchers have stated that human beings probably use less than 1 percent of the brain's potential, and research findings about human intelligence have transformed almost all previous definitions of intelligence. This booklet addresses the following key findings in intelligence research: intelligence is not fixed or…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Peer reviewedChiodo, John J. – Journal of Geography, 1997
Presents the results of a study contrasting conventional instruction with protocol lessons (a sequence of lessons based on developmental stages of learning with each lesson building on the previous one) concerning sketch maps. The students taught with the protocol lessons showed significant improvement over the other group. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Developmental Stages
