You either break up the students into learning groups or you find a happy medium to deliver your lesson. The other option is to re-inforce the lesson individually when able.
By knowing the learning styles of the students you are able to reach a larger group instead of reching 40-50% through lecture you can change your instructional delivery to incorporate sactivites, video's and group work and then hopefully reaching 100% of you students and help everyone be successful
Hi Terry- Thanks for your post to the forum. Students really appreciate that make an effort to really get to know them. It makes them feel that they are valued. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Working with adult learners, understanding learning styles are a must. Adults will not tolerate an non effective instructor. Many adult Students are dealing with lots of stress, it is my job to provide information to reach every learning style.
Well, I feel the more I know about the student and how he or she learns the more effective instructor I am and the student will have success in my course. This is a very important part of being an instructor.
By knowing the various learning style of the students the instructor can deliver the course content in an effective manner for the srudents to gather process retain and reproduce the information.
The instructional benefits of knowing your students’ learning styles is critical to your success as an instructor. The more styles you can use though out a lesson the greater your success will be when you have students that have a variety of learning styles.
The learning styles of my students can really determine how my students react to my instruction. Because I'm an online instructor my instruction has limited applications for some students. I will try to establish the learning style of my students with a question through a discussion forum and then try to meet the needs of those students learning style. This is an important step in helping the student engage in my virtual classroom.
The benefits to knowing the learning styles of our students is virtually endless. When we know how they learn, we can build more effective lesson plans. We can encorporate activities that will help our students learn more effectively. In short, learning how our students learn best helps us to be infinately more effective as instructors. Just because something has worked in the past with other students, doesn't mean it will work with our current students. We absolutely must avoid the "one size fits all" mentallity.
As an automotive instructor, being able to recognize how each student learns best is crucial to the success of everyone. Through the use of training aid pass-arounds, live vehicle theory-to-practice exercises, multi-media presentations, writing on the white board and using a variety of questioning techniques and restating important points to remember in different ways, I am able to bring each student up to a sufficient level of comprehension that he/she can adequately perform the necessary tasks, both written and physical, to succeed in the course.
I use a learning styles analyisis the second day of Culinary Foundations I class. Given the diversity of the students in our classes it's vital to comprehend what will be the most effective.
Assessing the learning style of students and preparing delivery of material with that in mind will give the students information in thestyles that they best learn
Knowing the different learning style, makes me understand the different types of testing that I can use for students to make sure what I'm teaching them is easily understood.
If a student is struggling and you continue to deliver the information in the same manner you run head first into a brick wall. Teaching is all about getting the information to the student and making it relevant to their future, knowing how they best receive information will accelerate the learning process and make it more enjoyable for the student.
Hi Thomas - Thanks for your post to the forum. You are using a good variety of delivery styles to reach your students - well done! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
At times, because I am a visual learner, I tend to rely on using that style a bit too often during teaching. I was teaching a wine class to over 20 adult students. I had them for 3 weeks. I was drawing and writing numerous wine facts, history facts and geography information on a large white board one evening and a mature adult learner piped up and said, "How you write your information on the board is confusing to me." I asked him to take the same information I was giving the class and asked him to outline it on the board so it made sense to him. He stated that he used to be a math teacher so his way of laying ideas and computations out on the board were more precise and easier to understand. I had to agree! Now I am more conscientious of changing styles more frequently.
If you want your students to be successful learners, you need to present the information, skills, or concepts of a lesson in such a way that they comprehend it. Knowing how the students process information help you to design more successful lessons.
I prefer using powerpoints in my algebra lessons, but I know that not everyone can comprehend from those examples. So I also add lecture and discussion to my lessons, and encourage students to ask questions. When available and appropriate, I also have various math toys (e.g, fraction circles, alge-blocks, etc) that allow students to "play" with concepts rather than writing numbers and symbols on a page.
By knowing the various learning styles of the students, lectures, presentations, and the like can be talored to fit each type of learner, which maximizes the informational input the students can achieve. Through the use of media, lecture, and hands on activity for each skill, the student learns, appreciates, and can reproduce those skills important in their chosen field. Additionally, by observing various other methods of informational input, while not ideal for each learner, it can be a small impetus to trigger recognition and assimilation of the new information if there is also relavence added to the information inparted....
Hi Tara- Thanks for your post to the forum. You are doing a great job of creating an active learning classroom. I remember what it was like to be an adult student in my early 30's with a classroom full of 18 year olds at the Univ. of Pittsburgh - interesting! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Brent - Thanks for your post to the forum. Your students must certainly appreciate that you make an extra effort to reach every learning style! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
