Myth #2 – Learning styles
I honestly believe that their are learning styles. However, everyone can learn through these styles it’s just that some are better at learning through some more than others. Take me for instance, I think I am a visual learner whenever I see things done I pick up on it more easily. If someone just told me how to do the problems it takes me a lot longer to learn the information. I know that as teachers we should not make the materials too easy or too hard so I agree that we need to teach students to learn through styles that they are not accustomed to. I also think that if we use more than one style at a time then learning can be fun and that students will be able to use the techniques on their own. Therefore, I do think that learning styles exist. But I do have a question about something. If learning styles do not exist and they are just a myth then why is it that when teachers create a lesson plan they have to have ways of teaching that cater to the visual learner, the tactile learner, the kinesthetic learner and so on.
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Learning styles MAY exist. There has just not been any credible evidence to support that belief. Lots of people want to believe but at the moment it’s a practice backed only by superstition and uncodified anecdotal evidence.
As for your last question, that’s easy.
Politics.