Just in case you need to provide some INSET at the start of next term about how children learn, you might want to look at this (apologies to those readers who can’t access youtube):
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August 28th, 2008 at 3:58 am
When I first saw this video, I couldn’t believe it. All the years we have spent in public education on teacher professional development over learning styles only to “discover” that such learning styles really don’t matter at all.
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Cheers, will do so.
I should probably mention that it was on your site I first saw the link to this video, so thanks for that too.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Surely Mr. Willingham’s name is mud in academic circles? I was delighted to see his clear explanation, since I have always wondered if “learning styles” really worked in the classroom, not being able, as a high school English teacher, to visualize (!) how.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Surely Mr. Willingham’s name is mud in academic circles?
I suspect he’s not popular with the snake-oil salesman.
But his credentials for talking about psychology check out perfectly well. The stuff we get told about how children learn has never been mainstream academic psychology. Have you ever noticed that most “psychology for teachers” books are written by people who have never lectured at anywhere more prestigious than an FE college?
August 29th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I have only one small quibble with the presentation:
Why talk about the shape of Algeria and outline Tchad?
September 1st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Great video. I was taught that there was no real evidence to support learning styles but that it was just a good way of checking that your lesson had variety. I have looked on Willingham’s site. Some really really interesting stuff on deep learning and rewards. Thanks for pointing me in his direction.
September 5th, 2008 at 2:39 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKkHiAA3xu0&watch_response
September 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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November 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
What I have learnt from this video is that if you misidentify Chad as Algeria everything else you say will not be heard by your students.
Jonathan
February 5th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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