Mary Anne Sutherland
19 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, attention deficit, dropouts, education, ENFP, ESTJ, ESTP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Introversion, introverted feeling, Intuitive, ISFP, ISTJ, learning disability, Mary Anne Sutherland, memory, misdiagnosis, NVLD, pseudo-ADD, Sensing, underachievement
April 16, 2014

Delivering education that gets today’s students ready for the modern world must incorporate flexibility, diversification, and individualization. Students have moved past the structure of traditional classrooms. They have different problems, different gifts, and dramatically different brains. Educators need to refocus their efforts on teaching individuals.
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the Editors, Mark & Carol
17 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: at-risk students, Carol Shumate, drop-outs, extraverted perceiving, introverted perceiving, ISTJ, learning disability, Mark Hunziker, teachers
November 5, 2013

In the type table in the accompanying article on the type-diverse classroom, almost 60% of the ‘at risk’ and drop-out students are reported to have dominant extraverted perception, while almost half of the teachers are dominant introverted perceivers. Is extraverted perception misdiagnosed as a learning disability? Or, is that preference actually problematic …
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Mary Anne Sutherland
17 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: 16 types, ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, at-risk students, attention deficit disorder, dropouts, exceptional needs, Extraverts, Feeling, high-performing, individualized instruction, Introverts, learning-disabled, Mary Anne Sutherland, Sensing
November 5, 2013

These at-risk students taught us how to teach everyone. I have described my classroom set-up as an integral part of the instruction. … Intuitively, before knowing about type, I had set up my classroom to accommodate multiple learning styles. Even the ISTJ students, who tend to like the traditional classroom set-up, performed better in my classroom.
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Philippe De Sainte Maresville
02 / Research, Theory, and History / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: Benziger, Broca's area, Feeling, handedness, ISFP, neuroscience, Philippe De Sainte Maresville, Sensation
November 15, 2010

Do you know people who tend to confuse left and right?—Not that they don’t know where their left and right is, but they mix up the words. Generally, if you ask them for directions you will notice that their hands point the correct way but their words don’t. The words right and left come out incorrectly, with no logic.
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