Some Questions... • How can we teach students if we do not know how they learn?
• How can we improve the performance of our
students if we do not know how we ourselves learn or how to enhance their learning?
• Are the learning difficulties of so many students
better understood as the teaching problems of? Some ideas... • There is a strong intuitive appeal in the idea that teachers and course designers should pay closer attention to students’ learning styles – by diagnosing them, by encouraging students to reflect on them and by designing teaching and learning interventions around them. • Another impetus to interest in post-16 learning styles is given by a government policy that aims to develop the necessary attitudes and skills for lifelong learning, particularly in relation to ‘learning to learn’.
• The logic of lifelong
learning suggests that students will become more motivated to learn by knowing more about their own strengths and weaknesses as learners. Learnig Styles