| Volume 59 | Number 3 Understanding Learning Differences
Welcome to EL Extra. We have designed questions to help you and
your colleagues foster meaningful discussions around this issue
of Educational Leadership. These questions will not cover all
aspects of this issue, but we hope that they will help you
generate a conversation around key ideas. Feel free to adapt the
questions to be more relevant to your school or school district.
Although you can consider many of the questions on your own, we
encourage you to use them in pairs, small groups, or even large
study groups. What do we know about learning and development? In
"Webs of Skill: How Students Learn" (p. 6), Kurt W. Fisher and
L. Todd Rose show the variations of development that are evident
among students and within each student. Understanding learning
differences entails understanding variations not only in a class
of individuals, but also within each individual. In small
groups, examine your own learning differences. Who relies
primarily on visual in