Table 5: Learning styles
Make notes about activities you observe in the classroom which use the learning styles
below:
Math Science Reading Other
Auditory Counting the Playing a Display a story Make the
numbers with video with a and reading it students
the teacher song about together repeat and
the animals say the
letters they
are writing
Visual Display Display a Display a story Put a picture
pictures video and with a lot of of what she
contain pictures and pictures asks them to
numbers bring some write
materials
Kinesthetic Make the Make the Put in each Make on each
group different
students students do group part of
kind of markers
move around the story and
and make the
and count experiments make them
students move
how many by collected and and write what
time moved themselves read it they like
Answer the following questions:
Which learning styles did all the children seem to enjoy and why?
The visual because the students like when the teacher displays a video and they
became active also repeating with the video.
Why do you think the teacher incorporates a variety of learning styles for the
children?
To make sure that all students knows what the teacher is teaching and to make it
easier for the students to understand.
Notice which activities are repeated with a variety of learning styles e.g. read a
story, listen to a story, act the story, draw the story. Can you find other examples
e.g., math or science?
In science, the teacher repeat the material case for example she displays the
material and make the students listen to the teacher and also they try it by
themselves.
How can teachers improve student learning by using a range of learning styles?
By making each group contain different kind of learning style and make the students
move around