Students get bored easily when they can't take information in by their preferred method. If they stay interested, they will learn more easily.
Knowing the learning styles of your student helps to facilitate learning based on their styles. Primarily lecturing to all visual learners not only risks the loss of their opportunity to learn, but they may also lose their interest in continuing their education. As a result, they may not continue with their education plan thereby never meeting their personal educational goals
It helps in finding new ways to present the information and identify best practices for assisting different students.
Knowing the specific learning styles of a class allows and intructor to better mix and match insturctional methods and media. Plus, it provides an edge in providing supplemental or remedial material.
Knowing the learning style of your students helps us know and connect with our students.Also it helps us give them the most out of their learning experience so they will leave better prepared for their career field!
Everyone has a different way of learning that fit there needs. By understanding this you can create a lesson using a verity of activities to keep the students engaged.
I feel knowing the different learning styles can actually make your teaching easier. Knowing this and using the four styles, you will teach in a universal format, to achieve the most understanding of the lesson taught.
The instructional benefits of knowing the learning styles of my students include being able to better prepare and meet the course objectives through those means that the students will be more successful, to include powerpoint presentations for visual learners, audio recordings of lectures for auditory learners, hands on approaches and pratical application measures for kinestetic learners.
I can become a much more effective instructor by understanding my students' learning styles and approach teaching and preparing by utilizing this knowledge.
Hi Kurt - Thanks for your post to the forum. Your advice on being flexible is important - Each class is different and so we need to be able to adapt to that diversity. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
the benefits and results are overwhelming regarding practical application. I am fortunate to be an educator in an environment which requires tactile learning. I am suprised by some of the new student reaction upon the realization of this requirement in culinary arts. Instructors can completely seperate the different styles of learners within the first session. Culinary arts obviously draws the kinestetic, tactile and visual learners
At the risk of sounding simplistic, if you, as an instructor, do not understand student learning styles, then how can you possibly plan course delivery in a way that will be effective for your students? When I plan my courses, I always have material prepared that I want to impart, but until I get to know my students, I don't decide all the mechanisms I will use to pass this information on to the students. By being flexible in course delivery, I can maximize my effectiveness with the students.
The benefit of knowing the learning styles of my students is that I will be able to broaden their learning. This information will help me be more effective because I can now go back to my class and incorporate some group break out with different learning styles which I feel will benefit my students.
Knowing the learning styles of students is important for the instructor as it allows them to customize for each student when necessary it also allows them to be efficient when setting up their strategy for delivering information.
Knowing the learning styles of each student will help design the course and make you aware of what teaching styles to use.
Knowing the learning needs of your students helps the instructor meet the individual learning needs of students more efficiently and effictively.
It goes without saying that knowing the types of learners that you have will help in honing in on the best way to teach each one but unfortunately the retations we have are very short and it is hard find the time needed to do it right.
Hi David- Thanks for your post to the forum. You mention an important point - just taking the time to talk with our students about how they learn, gives them the message that we care about their learning! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
The benefit of fitting your delivery methods to the learning styles of those students in your class seems to be quite clear. I believe another benefit of engaging each student in a discussion of their individual learning style comes from affirming to each student that their individual effort and success is important!
I believe if I take the time and initiative to assess and incorporate the learning styles of my students into my teaching, not only will it help in their retention, but also they will be much more interested and enthusiastic about the subject matter and hopefully this will encourage them to delve deeper into a subject or go beyond the classroom to learn more on their own. The school I just recently started teaching at does not provide a learning assessment of the students, is there one you recommend be used for adult students?
Hi Maureen- Thanks for your post to the forum. I find that rarely do I have a class that has a universal learning style. For that reason, I make sure to try to utilize delivery that will appeal to each of the styles at least some of the time. It may sound more complicated, but once you get used to incorporating material that will appeal to each style, it becomes natural! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
