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I have very rarely had difficulty in understanding how someonelse learns. Yet on one particular occasion, I was completely at a loss. I had a student who could not visualize any action or movement, she physically had to see a finished product. This is sometimes easy when everyone in the class produces the exact same, but when each team has a different course or meal it can be trying. I worked with her, drew diagrams, even sketched 38 images for her to no avail. While walking through a fleamarket I found a text book from the 50's, even though the pictures were not really upto date they were applicable to the class. I bought it for a whopping $2, and in class I gave it to her with the understanding that I thought it might help her visualize what she was to accomplish. The next class session, she was exstatic and in the trenches with the other students. She was so appreciative, but I still don't know exactly what I did. I admitted that we all see things differently, and that I wasn't sue how she saw te world but that another textbook may be helpful. And in this case it was the fix to a very difficult situation.

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