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A Learning Styles View of Success: Perceive and Achieve!

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| June 22, 2001 | Hlawaty, Heide | COPYRIGHT 2001 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

The Dunn and Dunn Model of Learning Styles advocates individualized instruction. By teaching youngsters through their perceptual strengths, achievement and resulting perceptions of classroom success can be increased.

Introduction

Recently, I had a conversation with my youngest niece. She is a ninth grade Learning Disabled student at a middle-class suburban high school. She is a resource room student scheduled for inclusion classes with a special-education teacher. She described a lesson in her life science class on the classification of organisms. Her teacher, Mr. Kent, taught the subject in the time-honored tradition of lecture with a ...

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