The different isms.

I was once told that an effective classroom looked like a circus most of the time.  Different centers in different parts of the room testing and teaching different skills in different ways.  Exposing students to all the isms is critical to expanding the learning for all students.  It would be easy to use cognition to teach all my lessons, but it wouldn't be effective.  I would be going over the lessons but very few of my students would understand, retain, or connect the concepts I taught.  Therefore I might as well not have taught anything.  I enjoy teaching and learning how I can teach better.  I must know how a learner learns best.  

Teaching and learning are very complex issues.  Determining how someone learns best is a task within itself.  Bill Kerr brings up the isms and how they interlock.  Whereas Kapp delineates the learning styles by the level of learning they require.  When designing a lesson, I am thinking about my students' behavior, how they are processing the information, and the connections that they will make to their lives.  All three isms must be present for learning and understanding to take place.  I always want my students to remember and connect what I have taught them.  In addition, I want their behavior (written steps) to show that they have this understanding.  Therefore, I concur.  The isms aren't isolated units of thought.  Instead they are interlocking peaces of a larger problem.