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“When students cannot learn the way we teach them, we must teach them the way they learn.” — Howard Gardner Teachers often can fall into the trap of teaching con- tent instead of children. Many of us have the attitude that “we will put the information out there, and if they don’t get it, it’s on them.” Several years ago, I had a student named Jeremy in 12th-grade English, in which the curriculum centered on writing and British literature. I struggled to find ways to make the content interesting — I used lots of cooperative learning, visuals, and let the students have lots of choices. Jeremy didn’t care. Though Jeremy was classified as gifted, he slept in class every day. I began to get really

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