To Teach is to Learn Twice Reaching Students In an ideal world, as an educator, your lofty goal is to stimulate learning and to infuse your charges with lifetime skills of metacognition and critical thinking. To show what they've learned, your students should show some sort of conceptual understanding of the material. Students should be able to apply any or all of these activities: formulate, answer, summarize, draw, dramatize, or to express the materials in some new way. Learning Styles The idea that people learn differently is not new; it probably goes back to the ancient Greeks (Diaz 11). As educators, you are aware of the many different types of learning styles, but for the purposes of this presentation, we'll discuss the types with which we are most familiar: visual, auditory, kinesthetic and social. Retention Rates Model This model illustrates the potential to optimize student retention rates by linking different learning styles with specific applications found on the Web. ©2000, Jannette Finch and Elaine Montambeau The College of Charleston-SC, Department of Academic Computing Last Modified 3/5/2000