While on placement i have observed many areas to teaching and one of them i feel has significant influence on the effectiveness of your teaching. There are three main categories for different styles of learning; auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. Auditory means the individual will learn best when instructions are read to them, if there is background noise or they were to read it out the noise would distract them and the information would have been lost. Visual learners achieve the best results when shown visual adds i.e. graphs, demonstrations and even when reading items for themselves. Kinesthetic is when an individual learns best by a 'hands on' approach. By doing the task they will often absorb the information quicker than sitting and listening. While observing on placement I have found that students that excel at Textiles are often students that struggle with academic subjects such Maths, English and Science. By understanding the demonstrations students often enjoy the subject more and push themselves to achieve more. If the government where to remove Design and Technology from the National Curriculum I feel this would have a detrimental effect on the emotions of the student and knock their confidence. This could in turn affect their overall grades as they might feel they are unable to achieve the same grades as their friends and peers.