Knowing the learning styles of your students helps you as an instructor to develop your lesson plans in such a way that will accomodate a divers audience of learners. It will also challenge you to become more creative in your delivery.
Instructional benefits of knowing your students learning styles are that you will be able to plan learning activities that will reach a larger number of students the first time. This knowledge will enable you to add varity to your presentation which makes teaching more enjoyable. Class participation also gives energy to the class making it more enjoyable for the students as well as the instructor.
I'm glad that you found the quiz useful. I am happy to have you share it with your students but you should check with your own school as to whether you can use it in your classroom.
Hi Susan, Knowing the learning styles of students can really help me in planning class delivery and lectures. It can also help me in adressing students that are having problems with the material by allowing me to deliver information in a way that I know will benefit a particular student.
Accomadating the different styles of learning will help your students learn in thier own preferd way. They should also aquire additional reenforcement and information with the other styles presented to the other students. Also I liked the (Learning style assessment)quiz we did and would like to know if we can use it with our students.
Kowing the learning styles of your students will aid in student retention. Not knowing the learning style could alienate a student and they become disengaged early one.
Knowing the different learning styles of my students helps me to keep all of my class on the same level. This way they will be prepared to take final test on the same day.
We find that our instructors who try to vary their teaching styles to accomodate the learning styles actually find that they really enjoy teaching more. Perhaps it's because it keeps them from getting "stale" or "burnt out" which often happens when we do the same thing over and over.
By understand the different learning styles of your students the instructor can become more effective. The different learning styles makes the instructor better understand why some student respond the way they do , and also why the student as the questions they asked. The different learning styles allowed the instructor to be better in his presentation.
To understand the different types of learning styles make the instructor more efficient in the subject and course material delivery.
To guide the students using there personal learning styles, in terms of motivation to gain sucessful outcomes from instruction!
Best,
Charles
It helps me know that everyone learns differantly and how to help them get all the knowledge they can get from me.
That's it in a nutshell, Howard!
Knowing the different learning styles of your students will enable the instructor to reach all students with the course material and objectives. Keep the students on track while maintaining their interest and giving them the opportunity to be part of the class discussion, providing for a positive learning environment and experience.
Observation.
I am fortunate, training for the automotive field does give me an advantage, most of the student body are kinesthetic learners. We do however get a mix.
I watch what draws the students attention.
Is it the PP or the video?
Do they take notes or use a highliter?
This gives me a small window into what they may prefer as a delivery method.
Wow william - you definitely have your class's pulse! Did you determine their learning styles through an assessmeny our observations?
Susan
Having that type of knowledge in the forefront of a class would be a blessing. It would enable you to target the best available methods that appeal to the class. As an example in my current class I have 12 that require a demonstration, 4 that want extra reading material, another 4 that would like more videos (we have a few embedded in the power point) and the remaining 6 need all the help they can get. The school I teach at, at least in the classes I instruct, target all the learning styles. After the first few lectures you get a handle on what works best, usually it is mostly hands on, but we do get the assortment.
Knowing learning styles allow for broader understanding by a majority of studenst in a class
well it helps you to diverseify the learning in the classroom in order to get the info out to all learning styles.i belive it makes your job of instructing a bit challenging but also rewarding when 99% of the class gets it
The benefit is realized when I tailor my lesson to the students prefered style. When tutoring this is very effective. In one on one situations I can focus on one learning style. In group settings it is critical to accomodate all styles.
