Another for Somer:

I had this kid that had a very difficult time processing visual information involving letters. So I would read the problem to him. He would draw a picture of the situation, and ask is this basically what the questions is asking. I said exactly, and he would go on to solve the problem in an entirely novel way. By using this complex set of proportions instead of what I though was the easy physics way. The kid taught me a brand new way of looking at problems. It did not work for all of them, but it was a very clever way of looking at certain types of problems that I have never seen before in textbooks.