SOCS - I (Hammer "Two approaches to learning Physics")

So after reading the Hammer article I find myself linking his two example kids to my own students.  I would actually be happy with either kid, as both seem motivated to learn.  Liza seemed to me what I call a memorizer, and Ellen a conceptualizer.  I wonder what a group of those two together would do for both of them.  This article makes me think of what I am doing in my classroom unknowingly to support students like Liza, as most of my "good" students follow this model.  I also wonder what I could do to help students like Ellen to gain organize and connect her conceptual thinking to her mathematical methods of problem solving.  There has to be a middle ground, and I have to support learning there.