Another learning style that your child might have is auditory learner. Auditory learners process information by hearing it. They do well by listening to lectures, and will retain more information from a book if they hear an audio book, than if they read it themselves.
Auditory learners might read out loud to themselves. Auditory learners may learn by saying the information out loud. You might even notice that they close their eyes to block out visual input, or organize the material in a chant or song. An example of this is the ABC song, but the same methods can be used for anything from the ABC song, to multiplication tables, to the Krebs cycle.
Some auditory learners benefit from listening to music while studying.
I know parents of my generation (I’m probably older than a lot of parents with 6th grade children!) were always told to turn the music off, make it quiet so that we could study. But for some auditory learners, seeing a cluttered room is much more of a deterrent than hearing loud music while studying.
As more research is done into learning styles, we are discovering that there are many different learning styles, and that a one size fits all way of teaching and learning just won’t work for some children.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Learning Styles: Kinetic
Did you know that there were different learning styles? One of the ways to make your homeschool more successful is to teach to you child in a learning style that will be most effective for their learning styles.
If your child is a kinetic learner, he or she is very active physically. She enjoys learning through touch, and is very aware of textures. He probably learns better when he is allowed to do something physical while learning.
For children who are kinetic learners, math manipulatives are probably a good idea. Writing and drawing are also physical activities so letting your kinetic learner write spelling words on the white board with a marker is probably better than asking the child to spell the words out loud.
Consider letting your child bounce a ball while practicing multiplication tables. A friend of mine made small bean bags for her kinetic learner. Some were filled with rice, some with beans, some with small beads, some with sand, and the fabrics were silky, furry, rough, smooth. She let her child hold them, toss them, and play with them while they were doing school work. She reported that her son’s scores on almost everything improved. This is just anecdotal but might be worth a try if you have a kinetic learner.
If your child is a kinetic learner, he or she is very active physically. She enjoys learning through touch, and is very aware of textures. He probably learns better when he is allowed to do something physical while learning.
For children who are kinetic learners, math manipulatives are probably a good idea. Writing and drawing are also physical activities so letting your kinetic learner write spelling words on the white board with a marker is probably better than asking the child to spell the words out loud.
Consider letting your child bounce a ball while practicing multiplication tables. A friend of mine made small bean bags for her kinetic learner. Some were filled with rice, some with beans, some with small beads, some with sand, and the fabrics were silky, furry, rough, smooth. She let her child hold them, toss them, and play with them while they were doing school work. She reported that her son’s scores on almost everything improved. This is just anecdotal but might be worth a try if you have a kinetic learner.
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