Education

Did you know that while many students are visual learners and many others are auditory learners, and in fact most students prefer a combination of visual learning, auditory and kinesthetic.

So what is kinesthetic learning?

Standard … kinesthetic learners are those students who typically memorize facts to stand or walk, you learn by doing, and likes to travel often.

Here are three suggestions for teaching kinesthetic learning:

1. Do activities that allowmovement. I often have my class set up "stations". Students move from one station to another to complete a task. For example the study of colonial life, when "I had arranged the desks in eight different stations and each station is another aspect of colonial life (pictures and written information available to each station). Students then have five minutes to complete a task in a station before they moved to another station.

2. Using simulations"ACT-it-out". Giving students the opportunity to work together in a group to create a short skit and simple to perform. Examining the "Roaring Twenties" I had the class divided into different groups with each group receiving about eight "slang" terms from 1920. Students have 5-10 minutes to create a parody, using the slang term. After students record their skits may discuss what we have learned since 1920, based on their actions to perform.

3. Reviews of games. Many games provide auditpossibility of movement. For example, to create a great, great concentration / memory card on the floor using vocabulary terms from the current device. Students are expected to increase after the middle of the room to move physically to join the game.

Remember, while students have different learning styles … teachers combine effective teaching strategies for different learning needs of all its students … including kinesthetic learning activities to answer.