What learning style are you?

Question

Think back to some ways that teachers helped you to remember things...

-Projects?

-Teaching style?

-Memory strategies?

What made your best teacher the best?

TEACHERS: What are some skills that you have implemented into (any) subject areas that you have found to be successful?

Please give me specific examples and learning strategies/ ideas for any and all subject areas.

All stars to the best answer :) Teachers and students alike, please answer! I would love ideas. Thank you kindly!

Answer 1

I am a visual learner, so I learn best when the teacher provides notes on an overhead / powerpoint as they teach. By seeing the outline and notes about the lesson, it helps my mind process and remember the information the teacher then provides verbally. I am also dyslexic, so it also helps me spell unfamiliar terms and names. When teachers do not provide the visual, I usually get so tangled up trying to correctly spell the term or name, that I miss important information about it.

As a teacher, the students seem to respond best when I am creative and give them an active role in the lesson.

Answer 2

i teach middle scholl and int he past highschool math

at the beginnign of the semester i give students a learning style diagnostic.

____ Folds paper when told to make columns.

____Rocks in chair

____Shakes leg

____Taps pen, pencil, etc.

____Reaches out to touch everything: people or

things.

____Grabs the door frames to “fling” into a

room.

____Do not trust ears or eyes until thing is felt.

____Collects “things”

____Breaks up toothpicks, straws, wads napkins

____Takes things apart put things together

____Takes lots of baths/showers

____Paces

____Talks fast, using hands

____Loves to listen

____Talks to self

____Reads aloud

____Uses finger to read

____Puts head near work

____Hoods eyes with hand

____Doesn’t do well with charts and graphs

____ Needs words to go with cartoon

____No visual or words recall

____Can’t draw without something to copy

____Can’t use maps, needs oral directions

____Uses jingles to learn things

____Can’t stand silence, needs to talk and needs you to talk

____Ask for repeated oral directions

____Looks to see what others are doing

____Gets the words to a song wrong

____Turns the radio or T.V. up real loud

____Very good speller

____Writes lots of notes

____Watches speakers mouth

____Doesn’t like to talk on phone

____Goes off into another world during lecture

____Does well with charts and graphs

____Needs maps, gets lost with oral direction

____Does well with following written directions

____Does well with symbols

i then use this information to locate their strenghts an dweaknesses in learning sytle - some days i want them to be using their majority learnign style on other days i want them to use a style that they are weak wiht.

for example.

when u foil out 2 brackets e.g (x+3)(x-1)

i use the tranditional foil FOIL with arrows

i also use grid muliplication

i also use little cube blocks for the minethetic- i can also get students to use algebra tiles.

when i get into 3d( 3 brackets i push kids to understand usign the cubes)

when i created a scientific notation project the students had to answer the same objective but usign their learnign styles.

i can also assess usign different rubrics according to their learnign style.

the kids  are more active and rememper  certain projects

this does not take away the fact that at somme poin t i do have to lecture. but having real life understandign and beign able to see ad touch make the lessons more memorable for students

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I'm one of the lucky few that has equal retention for auditory learning, visual learning, and kinesthetic learning.  If someone would pay me, I'd be a professional student!  I LOVE SCHOOL - that's why I've been teaching for 22 years!

Answer 5

Kinisthetic

Answer 6

depends what you want them to remember.. with a lot of things, repetition is the best way. projects always make me remember. my geography teacher had us make maps and memorize facts about the places we chose, and we also handed out foods or items that were from that place. i still remember facts about toronto lol and i remember the other peoples maps because of the different foods and the cool posters.

oh, and i just called my mom whos a teacher and she said she uses music and puts what ever the subject is to a beat.. and i guess rhythms help them remember things.. like the element table for example.

also, she takes the first letter of the words and makes a new sentence with them like with planets and sequences, im sure youve heard that "my very educated mother.. " for the planets

she also uses flashcards, games, and partner excersizes

oh, and my fourth grade teacher made up the craaaaziest stories to help us remember things like math. i remember alll of the math things that she tought me thanks to that, and even some of her stories.. a little bit hahah i remember something about in long devision she talked about having to ask a neighbor for sugar and if the first neighbor was smaller then me (the number outside the division door) then i would ask for the brother or something hahahah and she drew pictures on the board, it doesnt make any sense but it worked :]

Answer 7

I definitely happen to be a visual learner.  Perhaps it's because I learned to read using only sight words (no phonics at all); yes, that makes me pretty old.  Anyway, I think it's great to encompass as many learning styles in your lessons as possible, especially for those kinesthetic learners.  Sometimes just letting them work on the smartboard/white board/chalkboard gives them the opportunity to positively use their energy.

Answer 8

Far too many teachers have spent far too much time trying to identify learning styles only  to put students into one category. Remember it is a profile which demonstrates a preference and a profile. Your pedagogy has to be eclectic, Your written presentations to staff, parents,  class  and on this site has to be impeccable. Too many of you fall short  in this latter demand.