Seekers and Guides: How to Reach Any Student

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If you teach, you’ve seen it; the students who are doodling aimlessly on their worksheets, drooling on the table while they snore, or clowning disruptively and asking entirely off-topic questions.  In short, they’re bored.  You wonder why they would come to your class if they don’t really want to learn.  But studying the Craft is by definition an activity you undertake in your spare time, and they actually showed up, so why aren’t they paying attention? In my last column, I offered … [Read more...]

Seekers and Guides: Finding Your Learning Style

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 It’s a fact: everybody learns differently.  You might think of yourself as not being smart enough to learn some things, but the truth is, it probably wasn’t instructed in a way that was compatible with your personal learning style.  In her book Lies We Live By, Dr. Stephanie Burns details four basic styles of learning.  Most of us lean strongly towards one or another.  If you understand how you learn best, you can select instruction that will be more effective for you.  A good Craft … [Read more...]