How do learning theories help us to promote successful learners?

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: 80, University of Cumbria, course: Secondary Mathematics Teaching, language: English, abstract: There are numerous varied theories of how children learn and how they acquire new knowledge to the point that they competently retain and apply what they have learnt unconsciously. An awareness of certain learning theories may be conducive to a teacher's practice as they may then be able to adapt their teaching so that it conforms to the style in which students naturally learn. However, it might be hard to ensure that every pupil has their learning style suitably reinforced as there may be a large spectrum of the ways in which pupils learn within a class.

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