Webster’s Dictionary defines the term education three different ways: 1. the process of educating or of being educated. 2. The knowledge obtained through learning 3. The field of teaching and learning (Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary, 1996).

For this essay I will be focusing on the different challenges I faced when learning how to drive a car, and how the type of learning styles which were used affected this.

Educators have long known that people learn in different ways. Therefore, teachers present information in various forms.

Many studies have been preformed to determine the type of learner an individual is. Each person absorbs information differently and therefore has a different method of recording, remembering and recalling that information. Felder & Soloman (2009) suggests that these differing types of learners range from active to reflective learners, sensing to intuitive learners, visual to verbal learners, and sequential to global learners.

The Multiple Intelligences with the Learning Styles work hand in hand. In every aspect of Multiple Intelligences, there is a preferred style/way in learning or enhancing it.

During my educational career as a secondary school English teacher and a secondary school counselor, I have been fortunate to observe the difference between “the great teacher” and “the good teacher”.

Going back to school with a mortgage, kids, and full-time job? It’s not easy, but it can be done.

Understanding learning styles will increase success with your students. The days of rote learning are over.