Learning Styles Don't Exist

   I agree with Howard Gardner on the topic of multiple intelligences that we don't need to teach in eight different ways because there are eight intelligences. We just need to make sure that we are teaching children in a way that we are reaching them. If we aren't reaching them then we need to ask "Are there other ways to teach them?" 
   Gardner explains that interviewing someone would be more effective because it gives us something to hold onto compared to just memorizing facts.  We may memorize things for the moment or just long enough to take the test, but after to years where is that information? Gone. He also says that we teach way too much material and way too many subjects. If we make a few priorities and go into them very deeply, we'll take more away. So in claiming that learning styles do not exist, we are not saying that all learners are the same. Instead, we assert ability, background knowledge, interest vary from person to person and are known to affect learning.
     In a counter argument, learning styles do exist. According to a magazine article, teachers who have taught long enough recognize that students learn in different ways.
    

 

 

My MI strengths are spatial, musical, & nature.

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