Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic Learners – Help Your Child Learn Better
Gone are the days when our teachers lectured us on particular topics and a few front benchers actually understood the concept, while the rest of the class stared sluggishly at the black board or just pretended to look attentive. Education itself is experiencing a phase of transition from a product oriented system to process oriented system. Each child is different, so are their learning needs and it is incorrect to expect them to learn in a similar manner ,like everyone else in the class. To bring the best out of children and help them in their learning process we need to be more aware.
Identity their learning styles
All children don’t learn in a similar manner, so the traditional system of teaching might not be effective for all the students in a class. The past decade has brought about some mind boggling findings in field of education, which has compelled teachers, educators and educational institutions to take a second look into their teaching methodologies. According to researchers “learning styles” are simply ways in which individuals perceive and process information. Individuals are categorically divided in to three learning styles; visual, auditory and kinesthetic. Visual learners learn more effectively by sight. The visual learners are geniuses at board games and memory devices. To help visual learners learn effectively provide them with picture books, which would help them to create mental images.
Use of colored pens, computer graphics and drawings while writing help to motivate visual learners in their writing assignments. Similarly, auditory learners retain information based on what they hear. Auditory learners respond well to auditory stimuli, so they can be encouraged to create word problems, dictate stories and read aloud or using sensory aids like the tape recorder. The third category of learner namely tactile or kinesthetic learners prefer learning through hands on experience. They learn better by doing things themselves rather than just listening. If your child is a kinesthetic learner, then using hands-on-activities like experiments and encouraging him to take up art and science projects would help him realize his true potential.
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