Hi Graham, Thanks for your post to the forum. As long as my students are not using their phones to socialize I am happy to all them to use them to aid their learning in my classroom. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Rafael, Thanks for your post to the forum. I am glad that you have found this class useful! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
H Kay, Thanks for your post to the forum. That is an ideal mix of delivery styles! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Tim, Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes the key is "adapting" our delivery to the needs of our students! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
By knowing the learning styles of our students allows me to adjust the lesson plan to not only include the step by step format but change it around each day to stimulate each students style on any given day. I have found that many students prefer to use their cell phones as a tool for note taking or record a demo,I am not convinced if this is a good tool or just an easy/lazy tool for them to use.
When an instructor knows the learning styles of their students and uses it as a guide in planning delivery of instruction, the instructor can expect optimum performance from the students. The goal of every good instructor is for the students to learn the materials presented. An effective instructor will help their students learn the materials by presenting the materiasl in a way that every learner is reached.
This knowledge help me understand what I need to do helping my students. Also give me variety and keeps the students engage and help them to think in a critical way.
Knowing the learning styles of each class is so important. This allows me to tailor my lesson plans to accomadate each student. Each class will usually contain students from each learning style group therefore I will try to have instruction in each catagory. A typical lesson will include an auditory lecture with a visual power-point in the background with kinesthetic/hands on materials spread out on a demonstration table. I will then demonstrate a skill or procedure and then ask the students to practice or give return demonstration of the skill or procedure. This allows me to see that they are receiving the information.
An instructor can adapt instructional techniques to the student population. If the class is full of kinesthetic learners an instructor should create a short instructions for hands on activity.
In knowing the different styles of learning of my students will help me in the preparation and delivery of the lessons to be learned. I want to continuosly catch the attention of the students and keep the pace of learning in an interesting mood.
Hi Martha, Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes, once students understand their learning style, they really appreciate ideas to help them learn better. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
H Brian, Thanks f your post to the forum. We are just starting a welding program and I anticipate quite a few kinesthetic students.
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I try to present information using techniques to help students with different learning styles to comprehend and retain the subject matter covered. I can, also, offer suggestions on techniques students might use to learn material.
By knowing how a person learns is kinda a short cut to how to teach that particular student. I teach welding lots of hands on, I run across this with all the diffrent ways to teach.
Hi Damon, Thanks for your post to the forum. Especially if we talk about learning styles with our students, they "get" that we are trying to reach all of the learning styles through our delivery. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Samuel, Wow an excellent post to the forum - I totally agree! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I try to adapt content to as many different learning styles at once. Even students that have felt left behind by delivery methods in the past have found they can feel engaged by the material and like they have some solid take aways from the day's content.
It helps my class go smoothly and the students will have the sense of accomplishment after each class session.
Getting the students involved from day one is the key to understanding their learning styles. An instructor who only talks and doesn't listen never figures this out. You can't give a blind man a book and then ask him what he learned. You can't lecture to a deaf student. You can't teach in technical speech to a person who hears it as a foreign language. A sponge can only retain what it is, first of all, able to absorb.
knowing their learning styles are very important because you will be able to work with them and teach them by those learning styles.
