Successful teaching involves much more than reciting information to a room full of students. Instead, successful teaching requires a foundation of pedagogical philosophy that guides the teacher in the methods to best teach understanding with their students. More so, to build this pedagogical philosophy that is required for successful teaching, a teacher must constantly be teaching themselves by maintaining up to date on the latest theory and practice developments.
             This paper will critically review some of the latest pedagogical theories, as put forth by some of education's most leading scholars. Particularly, the theories that are proposed and analyzed within these seven articles focus on the general concept of how to better teach a rapidly diversifying classroom. With classrooms becoming more and more inclusive of abilities, languages, races, backgrounds and social-economic status, the ability to reach every student's unique learning needs becomes more and more of a challenge.
             In order to meet this new demand of teaching to a diversified and inclusive classroom, many theorists are advocating the use of a personal style of learning. The theory behind this approach is a notion of work in understanding individual cognitive and learning styles. In an article penned by Steve Rayner, this theory is defended against the critical attacks. According to Rayner, the key to successful teaching is to develop a model of instruction that aims at contributing an understanding of "personalized education, differential pedagogy and learning differences in the classroom."
             The basic idea of the learning style approach to teaching is that every student has a specific style of learning. In other words, some students learn a concept better through group work while other prefer visuals while still others prefer individual work. Added to this is the fact that each student's learning style is influenced by their par...