Diverse Learning
One of the pertinent concepts that was presented during this module dealt with how to assist students with reading comprehension deficiencies effectively learn important concepts. This topic greatly resonated with me since I recently had a student in a Strategic management and Policy class express her concern and frustration regarding her inability to understand the instructions and concepts related to developing a variety of strategic decesion-making matrices. What I discovered was that I needed to present the concepts in a visual format which provided the student with the long-term impact that these matrices had in assisting leaders in making the correct decisions for their organizations. Although this student most likely will never utilize the matrices herself, she at least will be able to understand the critical role that they play in assisting managerial decisions.
I agree that using different ways to present the topic can help. Sometimes a visual example will help the students understand the topic.
That was a great idea. When I see students struggling I often try and present information differently (usually in a visual way or through a visual example). This tends to help the student(s)
David,
this is a great example of how each of us has different methods in which we prefer to learn & how this is accomplished the most successfully. We need to have eyes & ears open to these situations.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
