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Learning Styles

In Life on 15 December 2003 with 4 comments

Patrick’s chart of teaching methods for different learning styles is especially significant to me because I and my next two younger brothers each embody a different learning style. I’m a visual learner; I can read a book and retain the information. Tim learns best by listening or speaking things aloud. He has to listen to a tape to memorize. Neither of these methods work well for Steve, who learns best by touching and doing. Steve is the kind of person who would not do well in public school, because school is structured for people who can read textbooks and/or listen to lectures. When a student is homeschooled (as I and my siblings are/were), the student’s parent/teacher can focus individually on a student and cater to their particular learning style.


4 Comments

Nice chart, I’m a bit of all three. It’s very interesting to know which techniques work best for different people- especially since I want to be a teacher one of these days. I can’t wait to see you at Christmas, Daniel! Call me sometime! :-)

Posted by Shanna on 20 December 2003 @ 5pm

By the way…. My Ideal Girl: Quality #94- I got that one down, what’s next? ;-)

Posted by Shanna on 20 December 2003 @ 5pm

Interesting how “writing notes” is listed under kinesthetic. I would have guessed that would be a visual thing but I understand what they are getting at. Highlighting the important stuff and writing notes works the best for me so I suppose I am a mixed bag.

Most people probably work ideally under a specific mix of the different techniques … finding that mix can be the hard part and lead to frustration on the would-be-learner though.

Somehow we need to figure out how to get indentification of learner maximization techniques into the public schools as well as in the home schooling environment. In home schools the kids have the advantage of being known VERY well by their teacher and of course having a educationally supportive family.

In the egalitarianism spirit of the U.S. we need to figure out how to make those benefits available to kids who have parents that do not care. Working on getting those parents to care would be a good idea too. It’s all about culture man.

Posted by Guy on 25 December 2003 @ 2pm

Sometimes, parents are the hardest people to get to care about the education of their children. It’s sad, but true. Many parents don’t want to spend the time to get that involved with their children’s education- when what they do not realize is that they have no choice. Everything they do effects their child(ren), either negatively or positively.

Posted by Shanna on 26 December 2003 @ 1am

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