Hi Pamela, Thanks for your post to the forum. Those are great examples of activities for kinesthetic students! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Asha, Thanks for your post to the forum. Learning how to effectively facilitate questioning can be very challenging for new instructors. Your post illustrates how much fun it can be! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Some tools for tactile learners would include: any activity using manual examples,direct experimentation with cause and effect, allowing for student demos and presentations to the class, and providing physical examples of the subject matter, to list just a few.
working hands on is I think the best way to learn and apply the knowledge learnt. It gives confidence to student that what they have learnt is working, they are getting it. It fills their heads with questions and gets the boll rolling.
I give at random different swatch numbers to students in class and they have answer my questions and other students are allowed to help the student and discuss and argue. It gets very funny at times to see student reason and defend their responses and then I get to give the winner an applaud and we then move on to another swatch.
this makes students go home and study the swatches as they are aware it could be them next time I pick for questioning.
But they seem to enjoy it and sometimes beg me to pick them.
Hi Tawana, Thanks for your post to the forum. Great example of activities for kinesthetic learners. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Michael, Thanks for your post to the forum. That's an excellent strategy for your kinesthtic students! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
With kinesthetic learners would do well with props of materials passed around; for instance in my Gynecology lab we are learning about breast cancer, therefore I have passed around simulated breats models for students to feel. For those students who are kinestetic learners this will bring the topic more home.
Since I am a science teacher teaching to kinesthetic learners is easy. Lab activities allow for a hands on approach to learning. It is great for all types of learners.
I teach at a technical school where students are trained to operate audio / sound equipment so the majority of students are kinesthetic learners. When I plan classes, I try to actually make the students use as much of the equipment as possible. Generally I have them take turns operating the gear or plan step by step procedures on the equipment for them to execute. Making them "get their hands dirty" is a crucial part of my process.
Hi James, Thanks for youtr post to he forum. That is indeed the key. We need to vary our delivery as much as possible. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
As a science teacher, it is relatively easy to incorporate this style of learning. What is key is to make sure that all groups of students have a mix of different learning styles so that each can contribute from the style with which they are most comfortable.
Hi Paul, Thanks for your post to the forum. Some disciplines are easier to find hands on activities for than others. i am suprised to see how many can be found on the internet! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
When dealing with kinesthetic learners, an instructional approach can include using hands on means to learning. Depending on the course of instruction, it may take some creative measures by the instructor to incorporate the preferred learning style of a kinesthetic learner.
Hi Christopher, Thanks for your post to the forum. You gave us an excellent summary of what kinesthtic learners need! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Provide step-by-step instruction.
Orient instruction toward licensing or certificate exams, if applicable.
Provide adequate space and requisite items/equipment to demonstrate methods, allow student practice and evaluate students.
Hi Orvileta, Thanks for your post to the forum. I agree that hands-on can be tough when teaching large groups but is sounds like you have a good handle on it! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Gail, Yes, interaction with peers can be really valuable! Susan
Susan Polick
This is the hardest to incorporate in a class especially due to the large class sizes of 30-35 students. Yet, by using groups, teams, projects and resources such as computer labs students get a chance to work together and in a new location to spark creativity.
I teach in a LVN to RN nursing program and find that some of the best student learning occurs during th simulated patient labs, where the students get to apply new learning to simulated patients prior to working in the clinical setting with "real" patients. The stdents are given a case scenerio to work on and their peers give them feedback during a post conference. I find that the most learning occurs during the post conference discussion between classmates!
Hi Brent, Thanks for your post to the forum. Good suggestions for our kinesthetic students! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
