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Does the highest score correspond with what you think your preferred lead system is How did you faze
when it came to changing the scenes slighdy in the last one of each section?
Think of ways to enhance the systems you don't find so easy.

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'The Lad VAX Test' from In your Hands by I Revell and S Norman (Soffit* Press)

However we get our information about individuals, we will then be in a position to

try and offer activities which offer maximal advantage to the different people in the
class. This might involve the way we organise groups in order to satisfy people who
prefer working on their own or, conversely, people who benefit most from
interaction. We will want to provide different sensory stimuli for the different group
members. We will want to offer activities which favour, at different times, students
with different learning styles. It is then up to us to keep a record of what works and
what does not, either formally or informally. We can also ask our students (either
face to face, or, more effectively, through written feedback) how they respond to
these activities. The following (unedited) comments, from a multinational group of
adult students in Britain, were written in response to a lesson in which they were
asked to write an imaginary film scene based on a particular piece of music:
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