What I retained from Tuesday's class was: The 4Mat, Techniques of observations, and the the art of probing. The 4Mat in my opinion is very concrete in relating the instruction to specific learning styles. I can see the significance of the 4Mat with today's high demands to find ways to educate all students successfully. More importantly, I can see how the NCLB is responsible for a culture shift in the nation's public schools. We are moving toward a dependence on numbers to measure how schools are doing. I admit that even though the concept of the 4Mat as mentioned by Rebekah is nothing but old concepts that have been know by different terminology the way the 4Mat presented it makes more sence to me. I am a visual learner therefore seeing the wheel and having it broken down into how activities fit into right brain and left brain made more sence to me. Honestly, I really do not think most teachers sit down and plan a lesson thinking of addressing all of the learning styles in their classroom. I think it is time consumming, and above all do teachers really know all of their student's learning styles? Some of you may argue that an effective teacher would know within a few days all of their students learning styles, and others like myself would like to have feedback from the kids. Please do not take what I said about planning lesson on the 4Mat model time consuming as a negative, I would actually do it, and would like to see all the teachers at the school I work at doing this and implementing it. It only takes one person to influence the rest and this would be something I would be sharing with my team and administrators upon my return to work.