The weather sure has been beautiful up here! I am spending the weekend at my family's cottage. This morning I went water skiing and it was AMAZING! Hope you all are enjoying your weekend!
Today, I am going to discuss learning styles. This post is about analyzing what motivates the students and how they process information. It also can discuss content-level appropriateness. For example, you do not want your 6th grade students doing 1st grade work. This post does not discuss learning preferences, which are things like visual vs. kinesthetic learners for example. Instead, it focuses on how the students can best learn in the classroom. The following paragraph explains the learning styles of the 6th grade science classroom students at Avalon Middle School.
Learning Styles:
All
classrooms have a wide variety of students. Most of the students in the science
classroom at Avalon Middle School prefer to work together on projects. They do not like
presenting in front of the classroom. The
students also succeed more when they are given a rubric to help guide them on
their assignments. The students are also motivated when they are given timely
feedback on assignments, as well as, when the teacher is involved in their
daily work. In addition, the students enjoy learning when the teacher takes time
to invest in the students’ life and gets to know who each student is. The students
also like it when they are given options for assignments because it feels like
they are being given responsibility for their education. Overall, the students
in the classroom at Avalon Middle School all have different needs and learning
styles. The teacher should be aware of this and determine what is best for the
class as a whole. Furthermore, due to having a student with a hearing impairment
the teacher needs to make accommodations for this student. These accommodations
can also benefit the other students as well, such as being aware of classroom
acoustics. It is important to keep the volume of noise down so the teacher can
be heard easily or have the teacher wear a microphone while talking. There are
many more accommodations a teacher can make as well.
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