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Teaching Around the 4MATŪ Cycle: Designing Instruction for Diverse Learners with Diverse Learning Styles
Teaching Around the 4MAT Cycle Designing Instruction for Diverse Learners with Diverse Learning Styles Author:Bernice McCarthy, Dennis McCarthy "4MATŪ has transformed my teachers from adequate to outstanding." — -Robin Kvalo, Principal — Rusch Elementary School, Portage, WI — "Principals and teachers have continually requested 4MATŪ training as the 'basic core' of knowledge for teachers in our 80,000-student district. We have trained literally hundreds of teachers over the pas... more »t ten years to 'teach around the 4MATŪ wheel' and meet the learning needs of all their students."
-Patricia Shelton, Director of Certification and Professional Development
Brevard County Schools, FL
What we need to know about our students is not "How much?" intelligence, but "What kind?"
Learning styles are linked to preferences in the ways people perceive and process experience. Bernice McCarthy?s unique 4MATŪcycle is a brain-based teaching method that emphasizes diverse learning styles, honors learner individuality, teaches concepts as well as facts, and improves student thinking and performance on traditional as well as high-stakes assessments.
With 25+ years of field testing and field use supporting its effectiveness, the 4MATŪ method uses a 4-quadrant cycle of learning that begins by engaging learners through direct experience, moving them toward
Reflective observation
Abstract conceptualizing
Active experimentation and problem-solving
Integration of new knowledge and skills
Learning happens as we unite our experiences and their meaning with actions that test those meanings in the world. This exciting new resource offers schools a powerful tool to enhance teaching and learning for students with all learning styles, backgrounds, and preferences. (20050729)« less