Wednesday, February 02, 2011

(PTL) Snow Day Reading Assignment

During our last session, we considered briefly the notion that (effective) teachers ought to identify and attend to the different "learning styles" of their students.  Here's one critique:

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall1999/DiffStrokes.pdf

And another:

http://www.garlikov.com/teaching/Lstyles.htm

Let's discuss this issue next time (Monday), along with your questions from this week's Q&A.  Do some additional research on the topic.

Also, just for fun (but also central to our current discussion), is US public education functioning as the "great equalizer"?:

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/winter1011/Schmidt.pdf

Lastly, here's a brief essay on competing philosophical approaches to multiculturalism:

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Educ/EducNich.htm

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