Diverse Learner Strategies

Students come into the classroom with very different needs that should be met with creative and varied instructional strategies. Using multimodal strategies to enhance content understanding will help students discover how they learn best. This can also serve as an opportunity for students to explore news ways of learning content and feel supported by using other modalities to understand content.

References:

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