Through his significant experience as a teacher, educational psychologist, senior lecturer, and author, Gavin Reid presents how to assess the different learning styles of students and how to enrich your own learning approach to engage all students, even those who are dissatisfied or face learning difficulties.

This book provides an overview of the different stages in the learning cycle and emphasizes the role of the classroom environment and various teaching methods in a child's ability to learn. Readers will see how understanding learning styles can encourage and promote good inclusive practice.

Ideas regarding learning styles and examples of different learning methods will prove valuable to teachers, trainee educators, and specialists in special education. Additionally, this book will be useful for school administrators, education inspectors, and new teachers.

Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

Author's Preface for the Greek Edition xv

Preface of the Greek Edition xxi

Part 1 How Children Learn

1 Learning Models and the Learning Cycle 3

2 Learning Differences and Learning Styles 17

3 The Role of the Learning Environment 35

Part 2 Learning Styles

4 Background of Learning Styles 53

5 Assessing Learning Styles 70

6 Learning Styles – Learning and Teaching 87

Part 3 Inclusion

7 The Inclusive School – Characteristics and Challenges 103

8 Learning Styles in the Inclusive Context 118

Part 4 Effective Learning

9 Promoting Effective Learning 133

10 Learning Styles – Strategies and Ideas 152

Appendix – Books, Resources, and Information 169

Enriched Glossary of Technical Terms 174

Bibliographic References 177

Name Index 187

Terms Index 189