http://www.mathmojo.com/chronicles/2009/04/11/math-skills-versus-math-insights/ The Official Blog of MathMojo.com - helping public school, homeschooling, unschooling students, parents, teachers and adults learn math with easy and effective methods. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mathmojo.com/chronicles/2009/04/11/math-skills-versus-math-insights/comment-page-1/#comment-142074 Debby Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:11:43 +0000 http://mathmojo.com/chronicles/?p=564#comment-142074 I have been telling my learning differenced students that they are not the ones who are "learning disabled". It is the teacher that is "teaching disabled". When students learn differently they must be taught differently. Sometimes that may mean that the teacher will have to dig deeper to find alternative methods that will work. Teachers often tell me at my workshops that they don't have time to learn other methods. Well, then the student will suffer. Why did you become a teacher if you don't want to investigate into alternative methods. It's frustrating. I have been teaching learning differenced students for the past 10 years using alternative methods and they ALL learn just fine. The most common comment I get from these students is, "Why didn't my other teachers teach like this. It's so much easier." Thank you for your article. It hits the nail on the head! I have been telling my learning differenced students that they are not the ones who are “learning disabled”. It is the teacher that is “teaching disabled”. When students learn differently they must be taught differently. Sometimes that may mean that the teacher will have to dig deeper to find alternative methods that will work. Teachers often tell me at my workshops that they don’t have time to learn other methods. Well, then the student will suffer. Why did you become a teacher if you don’t want to investigate into alternative methods. It’s frustrating. I have been teaching learning differenced students for the past 10 years using alternative methods and they ALL learn just fine. The most common comment I get from these students is, “Why didn’t my other teachers teach like this. It’s so much easier.” Thank you for your article. It hits the nail on the head!

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