HI Dana,thanks for your post to the forum. With kinesthetic learners we also need to give them something to "handle". I don't know what you teach but if you email me I may nbe able to give you some ideas!
Susan Polick
I prefer to stick with visual methods such as showing examples on slides.
Hi Caryn, Thanks for your post to the forum. Absolutely! For Kinesthetic learners they need to be able to hold as much as possible! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
I have found theat bringing up models from the lab when possible allows them to actually have a 3-d object helps their understanding more so than with a power-point presentation
Hi Lynn, Thanks for your post to the forum. I agree; when students can use hands-on activites to apply what they are learning they generally retain the concepts and skills that we are teaching them. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Since they learn best by doing and by using "hands on" methods, if it's a task that involves manipulation, obviously they should be allowed to manipulation the object. Role-playing can also be beneficial with this type of learner.
Hi Carmencita, Thanks for your post to the forum. Hand-on work is indeed ideal for these learners!
Susan Polick
I believe I would have them participate in more hands on projects. I have noticed that many enjoy working in groups and enjoy doing some of the research needed to do presentations.
Hi Jamie, Wow - you can't get much more "hands-on" than that! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
When I am teaching I usally use powerpoint with a lot of pictures. For most of my students they are kinesthetic learners and so I also bring hands on aids into my lectures. I bring a skull and teeth into the class room to pass around so that they can feel and see what I am talking about. That helps them relate to the lecture and brings it full circle.
Hi Jessica, Great ideas - thanks for sharing! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Hands on such as using models.
Take short brakes to allow the student to get up and move around, have them squeeze a small ball during lecture to keep them moving in some way. Or you could have them demonstrate what is being described. Example, I teach a procedures class for Radiography, I could have that student postion the pixy doll or fellow student.
Hi Jessica, That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career! Susan
Susan Polick
I love this kind of learner. The are usually more engaged and interested but they do need a lot of stimulas. If I am lecturing to a class of kinesthetic learners I will try to wake them up every few minutes with a great exercise I learned from Michelle Deck. I give each student a few post-it notes and tell them to write their names on each one. Then I will lecture for a little while and when I notice them drifting I will through out a question about something that we just discussed and have them write their answer on a post-it. Then, they have to get up and stick it on the board (this gets their blood flowing and wakes them up). I give extra credit to those who get it right. After the first round everyone wants to pay attention so that the next round they can get it right.
Hi Ronald, Seriously-have you actually had students in Massage that did not like "hands-on"? Susan
Susan Polick
This is what I have tried to incorporate into long lectures as well & it seems to be effective to keep kinesthetic learners engaged until we can get into the lab and apply the learning objectives "hands-on".
I am fortunate that I am a massage therapist instructor, therefore it is in the best interest that my students learn with the kinesthetic because "hands on" is what massage therapy is all about. I a massage therapy student does not like the hands on approach, i pull them aside and ask them why they got into massage in the first place. without hands on there is no massage.
Hi Nisa, Thanks for your post to the forum. You are using an excellent combination of delivery and assessment! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Susan Polick
Kinesthetic learners are the hands-on learners, so they learn by doing. Physical activity would be the main instructional approach for these guys. As an example, as an aviation instructor, you start with ground training as a base, but then you use either a simulator or the aircraft itself to conduct the next level of instruction. And then repetition is another key factor in the instructional approach...practice makes perfect...train, train, train, then train some more until the aircraft becomes an extension of your being, able to recognize what is wrong if the aircraft isn't performing as it should.
