Learning Styles and Teaching Styles
From Stories from the Ridge, The McCallie Podcast by McCallie School
August 22, 2025 · 51 min
About this episode
The episode discusses McCallie School's focus on understanding individual learning styles and the application of new teaching strategies, featuring the Mindprint self-assessment tool.
In this episode of Stories from the Ridge, Sumner McCallie, Dean of Faculty and Curriculum, Chris Carpenter, Dean of Student Academics, and Tammy Barber, Middle School Assistant Principal for Academics, talk about McCallieSchool’s renewed emphasis on understanding how individual boys learn – and how teachers can apply new teaching strategies by understanding more deeply the intricacies of these learning styles. And they discuss a new self-assessmenttool called Mindprint that in its initial rollout has proven highly successful in helping students and teachers explore and understand their learning styles more deeply.
People in this episode
Hosts: Sumner McCallie, Chris Carpenter
Topics covered
- learning styles
- teaching strategies
- self-assessment
- education
Keywords
- McCallie School
- Mindprint
- academic success
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Mindprint
Books & works: Stories from the Ridge
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