Now a fourth-grade teacher at the Mary Shoemaker school in Woodstown, Salem County, McGeorge said she's found a program that operates using the assumption that not everyone learns in the same way. It sounds obvious. Give students a choice, and some will write a report, while others will build a model.
Some students like to work in groups, others are loners.
There are the perfectionists and the independent thinkers. What Johnston's program does is give names to those learners, which can help both teachers and students improve. Now they have a way to talk about it with each other and students. Johnston said education rarely considers students as active participants in the learning process. Teachers create lesson plans based on curriculum and feed them to the students.