Chapter 7: Teaching Difficult Academic Material

The suggestion was to try different ways to approach things. This just screamed MI to me. The student said that a computer program helped turn a word problem into a graph for math class. This helped the student learn it better because the graph was visual form while the text would have appealed to a linguistic learner. I was also reminded of a chemistry teacher I had. For three days in a row he tried to get a certain group of student to understand a concept. I understood it the first day so for the next two days I sat there bored out of my mind. They still could not get it and it suddenly occurred to me while reading this chapter, that he taught the material the same way all three times. Now that I look back on it, I wonder how he thought that was helping.