I vividly remember struggling in my high school Latin class. Speaking Spanish fluently certainly did not help me in this class (as I thought it would). It took me reading, writing and RECORDING myself (with playback) to obtain the perfect score on my final exam.
To this day, I remain a written word and kinesthetic learner. For some reason, I always felt that my inability to retain spoken information as some type of learning disability. In 2017, I was diagnosed with ADD (now, universally ADHD). I still find it challenging to learn from audible/spoken content, but I can retain information as long as it is repeated.
It is SO important that educators remember student learning styles in and out of the classroom. I think there is often such a rush to present so much information in a short term that educators forget to consider the learning style of INDIVIDUALS in their classroom.
I plan to remember my own struggles when preparing and developing content for my students.
