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This Week's Topic
Learning Styles—Part 1
Students learn at different rates and in different ways. This week’s Teaching Tips focus on the ways students learn. By incorporating different learning methods into your teaching strategies, you’ll provide every student with an optimum learning experience. See this week’s Download Depot for a check on students’ learning styles.
This Week's Tips
Teaching the Verbal/Linguistic Learner (Monday)
The verbal/linguistic learner’s intelligence is related to words and language, both written and spoken. These learners like to read, write, tell stories, play word games, and tell jokes and riddles. To optimize verbal/linguistic learners' abilities, try the following: Have them memorize names, dates, places, and trivia. Use descriptive language. Encourage students to use new words to understand the material. Have students write and then speak key words and phrases.
Teaching the Logical/Mathematical Learner (Tuesday)
The logical/mathematical learner’s intelligence deals with inductive and deductive thinking and reasoning, numbers, and abstractions. These learners like to perform experiments, solve puzzles, work with numbers, ask questions, and explore patterns and relationships. To optimize logical/mathematical learners’ abilities: Provide projects that involve categorizing and classifying material and working with abstract patterns and relationships. Give students math, reasoning, and logic problems that move from concrete to abstract and require thinking conceptually.
Teaching the Visual/Spatial Learner (Wednesday)
The visual/spatial learner’s intelligence relies on sense of sight and being able to visualize an object and create mental images. These learners like to draw, build, and design. They need to understand the use of space and how to get around in it. To optimize visual/spatial learners’ abilities: Encourage students to visualize and to work with colors and pictures. Show videos and provide students with maps, puzzles, photos, and charts.
Teaching the Musical/Rhythmic Learner (Thursday)
The musical/rhythmic learner’s intelligence is based on recognition of tonal patterns and a sensitivity to rhythm and beats. These students learn by singing and drumming, listening to music, playing instruments, and moving their bodies to music. To optimize musical/rhythmic learners’ abilities: Encourage students to make up songs to learn difficult material. Have students move their bodies and play music as they read text.
Teaching the Bodily/Kinesthetic Learner (Friday)
The bodily/kinesthetic learner’s intelligence is related to physical movement and the brain’s motor cortex, which controls bodily motion. These students learn through hands-on methods, performing, and physical endurance. To optimize bodily/kinesthetic learners’ abilities: Encourage students to take part in sports, dancing, acting, and art. Have students dance, role play, or draw a lesson. Encourage students to challenge themselves physically.
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