Sunday, 9 February 2014

Catering to different learners and different learning styles.

As we know there are many types of learners and its teachers' responsibility to cater their students or learners according to their abilities. We know there are mainly 4 types of learners VAK and Read/write, being a teacher it is my ability to identify my students with different abilities. If a student is not achieving his/her outcome then I have to cater him/her according to his learning needs.
How I cater them in my class.

1. Visual Learner:

  • Can learn through videos, pictures, seeing etc.
  • Can write instructions while they are listening to lectures. 
  • Can choose quite place to study.
  • Can use highlighters to colour their important notes and texts. 
  • Can learn through charts, illustrations textbooks and handouts. 
2. Auditory Learner:
  • Can listen to audio transcript of the texts or topics.
  • Can listen to their peers while they are sharing their knowledge.
  • Can create songs for the possible topics or tunes. 
3. Kinesthetic Learner:
  • Can touch or feel the materials or objects.
  • Can study in short blocks.
  • Take lab classes.
  • Can go on field trips.
  • Can study with peers.
  • Can use flash cards or memory games to memorize facts. 
4. Read/Write Learner:
  • Can read their topics again and again.
  • Can write a particular tasks for several times.
  • Can read the notes out loud.
  • Rewrite ideas and principles into other words. 
  • Can use charts, graphs, diagrams to memorize.
I use these strategies to cater my different learners and styles. 

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