For students to learn 21st-century skills, we will have to teach them differently than we have in the past. The outdated, transmission model, through which teachers transmit factual knowledge to students via lectures and textbooks, remains the dominant approach to compulsory education in much of the world, yet it is not the most effective way to…

More young people are entering the teaching profession. These Millennials, meaning those born in 1978 or later, have different expectations than the older teachers they are replacing. This article explores some of these differences and suggests methods to help integrate Millennials smoothly into the teaching force. Reprinted with permission from…

Ruby Payne refutes allegations that her work is built on "stereotyping" and negative depictions of poverty. Instead, she says her work is built on a theory of cognitive determinism, that is, a belief that everyone has a mind and educators are able to develop every mind if they understand learning styles for children of poverty.

Through experiences training teachers across the country, the author gains insight into the necessity to accommodate diverse Native American learners. Sensitivity to Native American learning styles and values enables the author to better meet individual needs and learn valuable lessons in diversity. The author tells the story of her experiences…

If students were taught according to the results of learning style evaluations, students would be more likely to learn and educational malpractice suits would be dismissed. (Author/IRT)

Responds to criticism of the authors' Learning Style Inventory. (WD)

Elaborates on how the formal theory of learning styles relates to teaching methods. Asserts that, in many cases, good theory derives from successful practice and that teachers need to make explicit their intuitive views of students' learning styles and matched teaching approaches. (Author/WD)

We do not know whether it is possible to develop in any reasonably foreseeable future a theory of mathematics instruction that will be complex enough to include all the significant ingredients of human educability, yet simple enough for more than one million teachers to comprehend and use readily. (Author/IRT)

Outlines five contemporary images of the model learning scene--the bazaar, "just be," amusement park, praxis, and Siddhartha. (Author/IRT)

Among the areas considered are the differences in learning rates among students, the span of abilities among students in a classroom, and student retention of facts from lectures. (IRT)

Critically analyzes Neville Bennett's book "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress," which found that formal teaching styles are more closely associated with student achievement in "basic skills" than are informal styles. (IRT)

Little evidence exists to support Marie Carbo's notion that matching teaching methods to individual reading styles is superior to more traditional instructional approaches. This article refutes Carbo's claim that children can be readily divided into reading styles and that matching instructional and reading styles will produce better student…

Describes efforts at Worthington High School (Ohio) to use a diagnostic/prescriptive program based on students' learning styles to improve instruction. Utilizing the Learning Style Inventory, the school's staff believe they have made a breakthrough in high school instruction. (Author/WD)

This article poses 10 questions for secondary school teachers who bemoan their students' lack of interest, laziness, and resistance to learning. Students need choices and chances to make decisions and assume responsibility for their own learning. They also need to laugh and feel important. Matching assignments to learning styles need not sacrifice…

The flexible use of the mind for mental self-governance accounts for a variety of thinking styles. Just as the functions of mental self-government resemble those of government branches (legislative, executive, and judicial), the forms of mental self-government have government analogues (monarchic, hierarchic, oligarchic, and anarchic). Teacher…