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Essay / Different learning styles and goals for students...
The way students process information (the way they learn and the way they retain knowledge) is directly related to learning style of the individual. Teachers have long believed that if they lecture and tell students the same thing over and over again, the students will learn and understand a particular science concept. This learning style and teaching technique was traditionally considered the way the majority of people learn. We now know that this is not true. Not everyone learns better with just one teaching technique. In fact, students learn best through different styles: personal meaning, conceptual learning, how things work, and self-discovery. In addition to having differences in learning styles, not everyone is intelligent in the same way; individuals are intelligent to a certain extent in different areas. (Manner,