Learning Styles

Based on the readings, I don't think teachers should teach to students’ perceived learning styles because the articles discuss that "most of what we want children to learn is based on meaning, so their superior memory in a specific modality doesn’t give them an advantage just because material is presented in their preferred modality. Whether information is presented auditorily or visually, the student must extract and store its meaning." This means that if you want your student to remember specific piece of information you should try to have it relate to their background knowledge this way it stands out in their minds and they can relate it to something that happened in their past or something that they are interested in. I think that when teaching a lesson you should try to touch on a little bit of every modality and must relate the topic to the students interests; by doing this most of the students should retain the information being giving and can relate to it in a way that they will remember the information.(and it doesn't hurt to make it fun and exciting as well)