9) Adapting for different learner strategies and styles

• Serialists: give clear linear steps, worked examples, guided practice in sequence.
• Holists: provide a conceptual overview, then let them fill in details. Let them build models.
• Kolb styles:
  • Activist (Accommodative): use labs, simulations, active experimentation.
  • Reflector (Divergent): give time to observe and discuss, use journals.
  • Theorist (Assimilating): provide models, frameworks, lectures tied to logic.
  • Pragmatist (Converging): offer practical problems to apply concepts.

Teaching tip: rotate activities so all learners get access to the whole cycle; explicitly teach how to use weaker phases (e.g., teach reflectors quick testing habits, teach activists reflection routines).