Hi Edwin, Thanks for your post to the forum. You are using a great mix of delivery options! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I would try to incorporate Interactive demonstration , manual manipulation or tactile reinforcement to enhance student learning
Before a kinesthetic approach can be applied you must first use the written and auditory approaches in combination with visuals to set a basis of understanding of the task oriented concept. For example if the instruction involves the use of a piece of test equipment the student must first understand the equipment being tested and the theory of operation (written and Visual).
The student will then be trained on the test equipment as to its proper use, configuration and sequential steps to accomplish the test. For assessment and better understanding I would use diagrams where the student would be able to accurately label the parts of the test equipment, Use a matching quiz to define understanding of the proper sequence for setting up the test equipment for use, and then finally be able demonstrate its use in an actual scenario.
If actual equipment is not available I will have the students describe the operation and sequence orally using visuals as a guide.
Make sure you have all components necessary for a complete discussion and any necessary tools you may need to show students proper disassembly and assembly is performed.
Hi Daniel, Thanks for sharing great examples of hands-on activities! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hands on activities. Let us use specifically criminal justice criminalistics course. This course is about the techniques crime scene investigators use in the real world. The student gets to touch, see, and feel the fingerprint equipment to use to bring out a print that cannot be seen on a piece of equipment. Actually taking a cast impression of a tire or shoe print. Packaging properly the evidence to send to a laboratory for further analysis. These hands on activities instill better information and knowledge to students who are kinesthetic learners rather than reading from a book and thinking how it might be done.
We go over things as a class and then as individuals. Most of my students are hands on so some of the lab procedures sort of bore them. So we go over things visually and orally first then attack the lab.
One way that I use in our lab is "acting out." This is when we create a scenario and play the role of patients. The simulation lab is another way we re create case studies of actual patients.
Hi Aprilyn, Thanks for your post to the forum. Having students apply what they learning by following lecture with a problem solving session is an excellent strategy! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
When I go over math problems with my students, I do lecture on the equations, but afterwards I have them work on some problems by themselves. I also allow them to work in groups. Most students seem to enjoy this so they can interact with their classmates and compare answers. Then I have some of them go up to the board to explain how they solved the equations. This helps the kinesthetic students very much in grasping the abstract components of the math part of my course.
Hi Peggy, Thanks for your post to the forum. I also like to give students advance notice if they will be asked to present something. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
In order to get the student to learn muscles they are assigned specific muscles the class before they have to present. When presenting to the class they use the skeleton or other students to show the class where the muscle is and show the movement of the muscles. They can also use yarn on the skeleton to show exactly where the muscle is.
Object learning is a new tool instructors can utilize.
Hi Tammy, Thanks for your post to the forum. Yes, the best teaching option for kinesthetic learners and also generally for certain disciplines, is application/hands on. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Assuring that students are able to use the tools of the class and allowing them the hands on method of learning enables students to put into practice what is taught.
Hi David, Thanks for your post to the forum. You are using a great mix of delivery options! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
Hi Jorge, Thanks for your post to the forum. That idea is very creative! ( I should listen to your lecture - I make terrible rice!) Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
I teach an automotive class at a technical school and my students are also hands on learners. I usually set out the pass around items on a table, number the items and then have the students individually identify and write down any items that they know or can guess. We then quickly go through the items and identify them with their proper names and functions. We then go through the lecture, PP presentation, and discussion re-emphasizing the item that we previously went over. Having the student preview an item seems to help to understand what we are covering during the lecture. The student also has a little time to think about the pass around item for discussion
I have to lecture on rice cookery so I pass out several different types of rice and ask students to comment on how the grain's size and shape might impact the cooking process. In order to explain the different types of starch I made simple models of starch molecules from pipe cleaners.
Hi Christopher, Thanks for your post to the forum. Wish I could do that in Critical Thinking! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career.
Susan Polick
