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Article: Exploring Learning Styles: Developing a Flexible Teaching Approach. (Pedagogy Saturday VI).
- Article from:
- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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The sixth annual Pedagogy Saturday was titled "Exploring Learning Styles: Developing A Flexible Teaching Approach." This all-day event was devoted to an in-depth study of how different students learn, and how to reflect those differences in our teaching approaches. For most teachers, the "default" teaching style is a combination of how we were taught and our own learning style. With some students, this can be quite successful; but many of our students will have a different learning style than us, and we must learn how to adjust our approach. Pedagogy Saturday VI addressed this issue from the viewpoints of both learning styles and child development.
The opening ...