Excuse Me, You're Cramping My Style: Kinesthetics for the Classroom

If we accommodate our students' varying learning styles, Gage argues, our classes come alive. ere is your assignment: Draw a picture of what you consider to be the typical secondary English classroom. What does the room look like? What is the teacher doing? What are the students doing? Although I have no way of knowing what you've drawn, odds are that you've created a depiction of a conservative, structuralist learning environment. The desks are probably arranged in standard linear rows. The teacher is likely presenting the day's curricular objective via lecture and may or may not be making use of an overhead or writing the material on the board. And the students are presumably taking notes or listening attentively The above scenario, unfortunately, represents the ideal classroom environment to