Some are...some aren't.
We have found that sometimes we have to educate the educators! Last year our son (ADHD, pervasive developmental delay disorder), had a wonderful teacher who had an excellent understanding of learning styles and teaching approaches. She's been teaching for more than 20 years and we had a great year sharing ideas about how to teach my loveable and challenging son. This year he has a teacher straight from college on her first teaching job. She's clueless (we had to explain what ADHD was, and especially how the medicine worked), and not interested in anything we have to tell her. She's also having a completely miserable year, and I have serious doubts that she'll chose to continue teaching.
I think true teachers are always trying to learn how to be the best teacher to each individual child and therefore they are interested in how each child learns. Unfortunately, there are some teachers who aren't interested in children as individuals with different learning styles - they just want to walk into the classroom with their lesson plan and it's up to the kids to learn. Guess which one I like?
