Teaching to Learning Styles | Origin: ED103
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I like to rotate my delivery methods whenever possible. Let's read about it, see some photo examples, discuss and listen to experts, then practice what we learned. This approach might not work with every lesson, but I try to incorporate as many styles as possible when I can.
Comment on Amanda Creekmore's post:
That's true every student has its own learning style or maybe a combination of more than one.
It will take multiple sensory processing (auditory, visual, kinesthetic, physical) for every student to understand the material and making it a game helps to retain the information.
To be an effective instructor it is best to incorporate several learning styles for the students. I learned that there are auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and written styles of learning. By incorporating a PowerPoint presentation with written information on the slides this will appeal to the visual and auditory as well as the written styles of students.
I have learned to understand learning styles and how to adapt
Students learn in many ways
What I have learned is that using different teaching styles will help my students learn in class.
I've learned to get the students more involved physically and point out the lower voiced students when they add dialogue to the lesson!
Typically when I teach anything I meet them where they are on their understanding. I know that someone with no medical background at all will not initially understand medical terms and I need to provide clarity or frequently stop and ask them do you have questions. Paying attention to facial cues to see if something said may not have been understood and maybe approaching them after class
It is very important to screen your audience (students) and be prepared to accommodate the different learning styles. Also, be receptive to any students who come to you and express their learning style.
It is important to incorporate as many different deliveries as you can to reach as many learning styles as possible.
Although I'm a visual learner, I have experienced having a student that was an auditory learner. This student had accommodations and would read her test questions out loud. This would help the student process the questions.
This has helped to affirm that my methods of adapting my class environment dynamically have been a good decision. I recognize that different learners learn different ways. Shifting between different styles within the curriculum and the approaches used, between auditory, visual, and tactile learning methods, its helping me to understand more information about each of these groups and identifiers when interacting with the groups how I can relate to each of them and methods i can use to impact them in a positive manner. Teaching from a fully online ILT (Instructor Lead Teaching) makes it more challenging to impact certain groups but if your rotating through the different methods, it seems to keep the larger group engaged. I am usually interacting with about 15-20 students average now, and at least 75-80% seem to be staying engaged. I am trying to learn this information to engage the others if I can.
It completely makes sense to blend different learning styles in order to reach out to more students and have the learning actually apply.
Providing instruction to meet the learning needs of all students is important. Teachers need to be cognizant of their own learning style and avoid providing instruction in that one style. All students have to adjust and learn using different learning styles because all instruction will not be delivered to meet every individual's needs.
Tchelinda Hunter
I learned that students learn by different learning styles, written, auditory, visual and Kinesthetic. Blended groups is the best practice for teaching a class to reach all learners.
Comment on Jeffrey Mayo Sr's post: Thank you for the detailed breakdown of information. Well written and very informative.
Comment on Russell Hampsey's post: I agree with comment "about projecting our own learning styles." well written. Thank you for insight.
I would like to utilize the learning about students learning styles at the beginning of the course to allow me the opportunity to adjust my approaches to projects and class involvement. Having the students reflect and identify their strengths would be helpful in the planning of presenting of material.
