Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory

by Marilee Sprenger

Help students lead with their strengths and gain a deeper understanding of concepts! This updated edition of the bestseller demonstrates how to optimize achievement by using brain-based strategies that address students’ social/emotional, cognitive, and physical learning preferences. The author offers graphic organizers, current research on memory, and new charts to help implement differentiated strategies, and also

Genres: Education

184 pages, Paperback

First published March 26, 2003

About the author

Marilee is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Learning and the Brain Society, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. She is an adjunct professor at Aurora University, teaching graduate courses on brain based teaching, learning and memory, and differentiation.

Reviews

[Sara Westhead]

There is definitely some good advice in this text, and Sprenger has clearly done her research, however I find that VAK is way too limited. For example, according to Sprenger's interpretation of VAK, both my son and I are "visual learners". However, we couldn't be any less alike. If you look at Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, I believe you can more clearly delineate students by their preferred learning styles. So, going by my previous example, I, who prefer printed text, am a verbal-linguistic learner while my son is actually a visual-spacial learner. That said, a teacher who is just developing differentiation in the classroom will benefit from some of these more simple tips.

[David Cohen]

I think I already do a lot of this, but through relationship building and providing an auditory, visual, and haptic option in my Math Models class. Great affirmation of what seems to work for my students.