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Types of Learners Ell

Understanding students' learning styles, especially for ELL students, can help teachers promote learning and ease students' transitions to new schools. The document discusses 5 learning styles - auditory, applied, spatial, social, and creative - and provides examples of strategies a teacher could use to support students with each style, such as repeating directions orally for auditory learners, engaging students in debates for applied learners, using puzzles for spatial learners, and allowing group work for social learners.

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Types of Learners Ell

Understanding students' learning styles, especially for ELL students, can help teachers promote learning and ease students' transitions to new schools. The document discusses 5 learning styles - auditory, applied, spatial, social, and creative - and provides examples of strategies a teacher could use to support students with each style, such as repeating directions orally for auditory learners, engaging students in debates for applied learners, using puzzles for spatial learners, and allowing group work for social learners.

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My 5 Learning Styles

 Reflect upon how knowing student’s (specifically, an ELL student’s) learning styles could
be a distinct advantage, especially during the student’s potential transition to a new
school & environment.
Knowing student’s learning styles could be a distinct advantage. The goal of the teacher is to
promote learning and knowing student’s learning styles can help to maximize student’s
learning. When the teacher understands how their students prefer to learn, it can help a
student’s potential transition to a new school and environment, specifically, an ELL student. ELL
students have many hardships during the transition period, and it is important that the teacher
aids the ELL students through the transition in any way possible. Understanding how the
students think and which learning activities they would prefer and applying that in the
classroom can help ELL students transition easier and be more likely to catch up with the rest of
their peers. It can make their learning easier and more successful.

 Auditory
Auditory learners learn more easily by hearing rather than reading. These learners prefer
listening to lectures over reading a textbook and hearing the instructions over watching
someone do it or reading them off a piece of paper.

If my ELL student was an auditory learner, I would orally repeat directions, offer audio versions
of a textbook, sing songs and read aloud passages or books. I would also ask the students to
frequently discuss topics with their shoulder partner, which will give them the opportunity to
orally discuss the topic with their peers, repeatedly go through the topic at hand and hear new
vocabulary words. I could also have students prepare oral presentations about certain topics,
which allows for the ELL student to have the topic repeated orally. By having a student present
the topic can allow ELL students to hear the topic explained in a different or simpler way.

 Applied
Applied learners prefer real objects and situations. These learners prefer to learn with practical
and real-life examples. Some examples can be student teaching and internships because
students are learning by engaging in direct application of skills, knowledge, theories, etc. in the
real world. The real-life applications help the students understand concepts.

If my ELL student was an applied learner, I could ask the students to engage in activities that
use practical, real-life examples of what is being taught. I could instruct the students to engage
in a class debate, which will develop skills such as problem solving, communication, self-
management and social. Debates allow the students to engage in real life situations. If the
students are learning about the process of plant growth, I could ask the students to identify the
parts of the plant, plant the seed, and watch and document the stages the plant goes through.

 Spatial
Spatial learners are skilled at perceiving and visualizing information in the world around them.
These types of learners think in pictures rather than in words. Spatial learners may be good at
drawing, assembling, or repairing things by visualizing and manipulating objects and shapes in
their mind.

If my ELL student was a spatial learner, I would use playdoh to allow the students to manipulate
objects and shapes that they visualize in their head. I would also use puzzles and memory,
matching or pattern games. I could use a map of the world which allows the teacher or student
to take out the continents of the world and put them back once they have been identified
where they go.

 Social
Social learners communicate and work well with people, meaning they prefer social activities.
They prefer to work with classmates and instructors rather than working individually.

If my ELL student was a social learner, I could engage the student in social activities as much as
possible. Knowing that these learners prefer to work with classmates and instructors, I will
allow them to do group projects, complete games in teams, talk with their shoulder partner
frequently, and read books with their classmates.

 Creative
Creative learners prefer to learn through discovery or experimentation rather than memorizing
information. They tend to build knowledge through creative techniques. Some examples are
storytelling, analogies and hypothetical scenarios. Creative learners are imaginative and
innovative with their learning.

If my ELL student was a creative learner, I could sometimes offer them choice in games and
activities, which allows students to let their creative mind roam free while still practicing their
grade-appropriate standards. When teaching a lesson, I could allow the student to learn
through discovery and experimentation such as the egg in a bottle experiment or mixing colors
to make another color. I could also ask students questions that allow them to create a
hypothetical scenario to practice writing.

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