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Tips For Educators On Accommodating Different Learning Styles

The document provides tips for educators on accommodating different learning styles in their classrooms. It identifies the three major learning styles as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile. For visual learners, educators should use maps, diagrams, highlighting, and written instructions. For auditory learners, they should engage students in conversation, questioning, and oral summaries. For kinesthetic learners, hands-on activities like role playing, moving objects, and note taking are recommended. The goal is to incorporate various teaching methods to reach students with different preferences.

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Tips For Educators On Accommodating Different Learning Styles

The document provides tips for educators on accommodating different learning styles in their classrooms. It identifies the three major learning styles as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/tactile. For visual learners, educators should use maps, diagrams, highlighting, and written instructions. For auditory learners, they should engage students in conversation, questioning, and oral summaries. For kinesthetic learners, hands-on activities like role playing, moving objects, and note taking are recommended. The goal is to incorporate various teaching methods to reach students with different preferences.

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Tips for Educators on Accommodating Different Learning Styles

We all have a way in which we best learn. Odds are, every student in your class has a different
preferred learning style, which can make it difficult for you to be the most effective teacher.
However, by trying to incorporate various methods into your teaching, you may be able to reach
the majority of your students. At the college level, it is expected that students have an idea of
how to adapt to most teachers, although it cannot hurt to help them out a little! Below we have
the three major learning styles and ways in which you can accommodate them.

Learning Characteristics Tips for Accommodating


Style

Visual Use maps, flow charts, or webs


Someone with a Visual learning style has a
preference for seen or observed things, to organize materials
including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, Highlight and color code
displays, handouts, films, flip-chart, etc. These books/notes to organize and relate
people will use phrases such as show me, material
lets have a look at that and will be best able Have students pick out key
to perform a new task after reading the words and ideas in their own
instructions or watching someone else do it writing and highlight them in
first. These are the people who will work from different colors to clearly reveal
lists and written directions and instructions. organizational patterns
Write out checklists of needed
formulas, commonly misspelled
words, etc.
Write out and use flash cards
for review of material
Draw pictures or cartoons of
concepts
Write down material on slips
of paper and move them around
into proper sequence. (Can be
done on PC too)
Use the chalkboard (them and
you) to note important
information
If using the computer, have the
student experiment with different
font sizes and styles to enhance
readability.

Auditory Engage the student in


Someone with an Auditory learning style has a
preference for the transfer of information conversation about the subject
through listening: to the spoken word, of self or matter
others, of sounds and noises. These people will Question students about the
use phrases such as tell me, lets talk it over material
and will be best able to perform a new task Ask for oral summaries of
after listening to instructions from an expert. material
These are the people who are happy being Have them tape lectures and
given spoken instructions over the telephone, review them with you
and can remember all the words to songs that Have them tape themselves
they hear! reviewing material and listen to it
together
Read material aloud to them
Use a talking calculator
Have them put material to a
rhythm or tune and rehearse it
aloud

Kinesthetic Someone with a Kinesthetic learning style has a Write out checklists of
or Tactile preference for physical experience - touching,
feeling, holding, doing, practical hands-on materials to be learned or looked
experiences. These people will use phrases such for
as let me try, how do you feel? and will be
best able to perform a new task by going ahead Trace words and diagrams on
and trying it out, learning as they go. These are paper
the people who like to experiment, hands-on, and
Use textured paper and
never look at the instructions first!
experiment with different sizes of
pens, pencils, and crayons to write
down information
Use role play or dramatize
concepts. Students can move
objects around to dramatize a
concept or act out the concept
themselves.
Ask the student to envision a
scene in which the material to be
learned is being used or acted out
somehow. For example: a student
could imagine being a character in
a novel.
Have the student take notes (on
paper, word processor, in
textbooks) while reading or
listening.
Use some form of body
movement (snapping fingers,
pacing, mouthing ideas) while
reciting material to be learned.

Source: VAK Test

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