Willinghams learning theory

Question 1

What does he suggest?

Answer 1

learning style teaching does not improve learning
Learing styles suggest it should match childs preferred style - wrong - visual or vebel - more opportunites to practice this and not less

Question 2

what does he think the best way of learing is?

Answer 2

apropriate task for teacing children should match the content - if teaching graphs - use visual tasks - essay or languange - words
visual and verbal skills that will be required for them to use within the future
findings from cognitvie psychology and neuropsychology studies - not how leaarn but retain

Question 3

Evaluation?

Answer 3

strenghth: scientific reseach - info drawn from methodoligy dound research - cognitive psycholigist - resaerch results related to learning - all of his reccomendations is based on scientific research - trust conclusions

strength: focusing on applications to learning - aim to select resaerch which has specific application to learning and teaching - critism is that it does not result in better school peformance - real world value - important outcome of pyscholgical studies