Learning Styles

by Marlene D. LeFever

Learning Styles is full of practical, helpful, and eye-opening information about the different ways kids perceive information and then use that knowledge, as well as how their behavior is often tied to their particular learning style. When we understand learning styles—imaginative, analytic, common sense, and dynamic—and adjust our teaching or parenting to those styles, we begin reaching everyone God gives us to teach.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction, Christian Non Fiction, Christian, Ebooks

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

Reviews

[John Andrew Szott III · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dated and repetitive but still thought-provoking at points!

[Zachariah Kenney · Rating 5 out of 5]

I felt like this book dealt with one of the most profound teaching concepts I’ve seen in a long time.

I discuss it more on my blog:
https://seminary2016.wordpress.com/20...

[John Lawless · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every Sunday School teacher should read this book....

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dated reference book for teaching to many different learning styles in a Christian context. This book would be helpful for any new teachers who want some ideas for lesson planning. It has sample lessons for kids, youth, and adults.

[Chad Benkert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Repetitive and out of date. Basic content is good..

If you read the first few chapters you have read the book. It's time for a new edition without Amy Grant and overheads.

[Patricia Tillman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for all kinds of teachers.

[Mita Hardiyanti · Rating 2 out of 5]

iwanna get this book

[Obadiah Dalrymple · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was interesting and certainly provides things for teachers to think about. With that said, I'm not really sold on the importance of learning styles. I think learning preferences exist, but we're beings of higher cognitive abilities that can adapt to different situations if we want to. As such, labeling someone as a certain "learning style" is not only largely unnecessary, but also seems like a good way for someone to lean on excuses and say "I'm just that way" instead of working hard to overcome circumstances that are less than idea.

Furthermore, the tests that align people to certain types of learning styles are based on a very subjective method of classification. If I take a quiz that forces me to choose one of four options, then is it really an assessment of my true preferences? For example, if a question said, "which do you like best, a strawberry, grape, cantaloupe, or watermelon," my true answer would be "all of the above", or perhaps I might even have a different answer on different days. But in a test like "learning styles", I'm forced to choose an answer. So am I really a common sense learner with a preference toward kinesthetic, or did I just choose answers in a test that were arbitrary in their true measure of my preferences? I personally think the latter. As such, I think preferences are obviously a real thing, that can change frequently, but I also think that these are largely irrelevant to whether or not I will learn a subject. If I truly want to or need to learn a subject, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, analytical, and so on, won't really matter.

With all of that said, I do think the principles of this book can be used to encourage teachers to use a variety of methods as they teach, to better reach the preferences of individuals....or really just so people don't get bored.