Each Student Has a Different Door: What I Learned About Learning Styles from Andrew Cohen — and from My Own Students
A professor explored the impact of student learning strategies awareness after a workshop. They introduced a survey to their Northwestern University Spanish classes, adapted from one used by Andrew Cohen, to investigate how student learning changes when they reflect on their own learning processes. The article discusses the insights gained from this experiment and student responses.
After attending a summer workshop on learning strategies led by Professor Andrew Cohen, I returned to my Spanish classrooms at Northwestern University with a simple question: What would happen if my students became aware of how they learned? To explore this, I introduced an anonymous learning strategies survey that I had adapted from one I had […] The post Each Student Has a Different Door: What I Learned About Learning Styles from Andrew Cohen — and from My Own Students appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
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