learning styles
how can i make a game to bring out their learning styles
Dee, I utilize index cards in a number of ways that create student activity and success.
Michele Deck
I do appreciate the variety in here. I don't have audio-video capability in all of the classrooms. Index cards make a great way to avoid that drawback and still catch all the learners in games and activities. I've gone in streaks depending on the class make-up and resources. Never entered my mind how easy it would be to incorporate the activities with index cards. I'm more from the 'rote memorizing' school so these ideas are a challenge as well as welcome.
I totally agree. The whole brain organizer is the best choice to accomodate all students learning styles.
Misty, having the students interact with content is more effective than only showing them power point slides. Variety is the key.
Michele Deck
I too can use all the tips I can get! I am fairly new to the field of education and trying to come up with creative ideas for the students to keep their attention can be somewhat challenging for me. I'm getting ready to teach a class in a couple of weeks that I have never taught before. The power points that come with the book are long and boring, I want to modify the power points but my concern is I might leave out valuable information. Any ideas to help improve the students learning would be greatly appreciated.
In my lab competencies I will sometimes have the individual students draw for me how a component or a procedure works. For this I have one student in the lab at a time and it relieves some of the anxiousness of the student and allows me to interpret what they've learned.
Traci, I hope you enjoy using this method.
Michele Deck
I would definitely say the whole brain organizer works very well. It incorporates all learning styles and recall.
I have used the DISC tool and find it a helpful assessment tool, too.
The College where I teach offers the DiSC assessment to all first quarter students and they will have the results of this study by the time they enter the Medical Terminology class. DiSC is both a learning style and personality profile. Knowing how they learn and what types of personalities they work best with is definitely a boost when they start working in groups in their various classes.
Beatrice, this is my favorite method as well.
The whole brain organizer is my favorite because it tops into all three major learning styles, auditory, visual, and kinesthetic.
Thirty minutes or less is a good rule to follow with scrabble.
Scrabble includes all three learning styles. They say the word, touch the letters to create a word. I do not let them play any longer than 30 min.
Gerard, if your class consists only of not so young students, then you can use rote memorization only. If you have younger students in the class, too (who have short attention spans), you might consider using a combination of both, explaining to each that repetition is necessary for learners to recall information. You will be offering a variety of was to revisit content using both.
I have students who are not "so young" and are a little bit shy or embarassed (maybe even antagonistic to this lively and rather "new school" approach of teaching). They are still stuck I guess to learning by pure memorization, reinforced through mere repetition. Any suggestions?
Maria, it's amazing that many instructors don't ask this question. I applaud that you do, keep up the good work!
when doing introductions in my class, I simply ask them what kind of learner they are or they think they are. Usually they are pretty open to discussion.
This sounds like a great idea, I'm sure their are other movies that this would for as well. Now did you sit and watch the movie first and write down as many words that you could before doing this with the class? Just curious.
