Accelerated Learning Is Often A Rallying Cry That Unifies Teachers Towards A

Accelerated Learning is often a rallying cry that unifies teachers towards a common goal of improvement. Learning styles encourages teachers to reflect on individual learning needs even if academics doubt VAK are in fact intelligences. Away from the classroom, public relations pressures on a school can make a new innovation, which is popular in the press and associated with good inspection reports, very attractive indeed.
There are reasonable pragmatic reasons for a primary school to adopt Accelerated Learning, but whether or not it is a passing frenzy remains to be seen.

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