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Direct linkUpczak-Garcia, Anne – Educational Leadership, 2012
The author works as a biliteracy teacher in a bilingual school that serves students from K-5th grade. She and her coteacher provide instruction in both English and Spanish to 4th and 5th graders. They have two language arts blocks so that students receive literacy instruction in both their native and second languages, and they teach math, social…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Teachers, Team Teaching
Peer reviewedBarbe, Walter B.; Milone, Michael N., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1981
A reply from Barbe and Milone to Dunn and Carbo concerning the latter's comments about their research on modality strengths and preferences. (MLF)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning Modalities, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedBrandt, Ron – Educational Leadership, 1990
Educators have three approaches to learning styles: focusing on the individual, using comprehensive models to adapt instruction to major learning differences, and identifying key elements of an individual's learning style and matching instruction and materials to these differences. One controversial aspect of learning styles is the use of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Individual Differences, Learning Modalities
Peer reviewedCarbo, Marie – Educational Leadership, 1987
Rejects phonics or any other reading method as "best" for every child. Summarizes major conclusions of reading styles research, outlines five reading style stimuli, offers tips for increasing reading achievement and enjoyment, and presents research results from five pilot school districts. Matching instruction to individual reading styles is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Learning Modalities, Literacy
Peer reviewedRaths, James – Educational Leadership, 1987
Outlines debriefing strategies to help students organize, compare, classify, evaluate, summarize, or analyze an experience and determine its meaning. Discusses several possible activities leading to increased understanding, including writing logs, diaries, or summaries, naming themes, imagining alternatives, evaluating, role-playing, drawing,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Cooperative Learning, Diaries, Evaluation
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
Peer reviewedO'Neil, John – Educational Leadership, 1990
As dropout and student disengagement rates reach alarmingly high levels, learning styles theory offers one way to expand teaching methods and curricula to reach more students. Although accommodating individual differences is appealing, nagging doubts and murky research results (detailed in a sidebar) persist. Another sidebar explores culture/style…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedDunn, Kenneth; Dunn, Rita – Educational Leadership, 1987
Challenges 15 popular beliefs held about students and optimal learning environments by citing data from studies of student learning styles. Individual learning styles vary, and academic achievement can be improved by providing flexible teaching styles and classroom environments where students can match their learning styles. Includes extensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Educational Research
