Hi Julie - Thanks for your post to the forum. You are doing a great job at verying your delivery to address the learning styles! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I use power points for the unit lectures. I incorporate videos into the lectures and for some of the competencies. I also demonstrate the competencies before they have to check off on the competencies.
I also use PP and other visual aids alot. Although that is probably because I myself am also a visual learner.
Hi Amy - Thanks for your post to the forum. I also find some wonderful videos on YouTube that I use in my classes. Students love them! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
I enjoy finding interesting pictures and graphs to show to my students via powerpoint or overhead projector, and this breaks up the monotony of lecture. Great discussions also arise as a result of my visuals.
HI Steven - Thanks for your post to the forum. Having students present or "teach-back" is a very effective assessment and also really increases the retention of those skills/concepts for students. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
HI Alvina- Thanks for your post to the forum and for sharing a very creative idea for our visual learners! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
When teaching students fractions, a paper folding exercise is helpful. Have students use a colored pencil to shade the results of their problem solving activity. 1/3 of the whole. 4/9 of the whole and the remaining 2/9, etc.
This activity is ideal for the visual learner!
When planning instructional strategies, I try to use a variety of strategies to keep the class stimulating and to address different learning styles. An instructor must consider multiple intelligences.
I strive to find a variety of material for students to learn from. I teach accounting, using the book is very important. Most texts have rich websites that host a variety of videos, problem demonstrations, and even audio explaining concepts. I make sure to use a variety of these demonstrations in the classroom.
Another effective tool is to have students work problems in groups, then present them to the class, working with the class to complete them. This gives the students ownership of their learning.
Using various media such as powerpoints, demonstrations and charts help visual learners. Variety of material as well as interesting presentation methods help these learners to understand and retain new information
I use the SmartBoard. I try to use color to emphasize certain points. I also like to incorporate khanacademy. com clips that pertain to my lesson for the day.
I teach software programs. So I use overhead projectors to view the interface layout
instruct the material using powerpoint presentations
I find role playing works well in the classes that lend themselves to it. It appeals to visual and auditory learners, and to a lessor extent, the kinesthetic learners as well. Short film clips embedded in powerpoint presentations is also a good attention getter for visual learners. If nothing else is available or approbriate for the class, just being animated with your body movement, gestures and actions can help visual learners stay engaged.
I try to use power points that are colorful as well as animated. I have found that if you have a wow factor in the presentation it can help a student to stay involved. I have also found that sometimes a presentation that is too stimulating will actually detract from the main subject course and will de-rail the learning experience.
Hi Phonesavanh- Thanks for your post to the forum.I like the idea of using videos before the lecture as this gives the students something to relate the lecture concept to. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
For visual learners, I use a lot of videos (to introduce or review material), animations (to learn processes), and pictures (play matching games) as instructional strategies. I have found that the using videos to introduce a concept before lecture then watching animations in the middle of lecture helps my science students the best.
Hi Don- Thanks for your post to the forum. Best wishes as you proceed in your teaching career. I know that you will find it to be incredibly rewarding! Susan
I do not have much experience in the teaching field yet, but I think the use of posterboards, powerpoints( or any software that uses animation or pictures), or short movies would all work well in a visual learners environment. As you are lecturing you could use the software or posterboards to retain focus, then after a lecture you may play a short movie that reinforces what you had lectured about.
