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Kids Learning Styles
Do you know your kids learning styles? Free learning style assessment to find out how differentiate instruction for your class.
What is a learning style?
It is simply a way to explain a student's preferred method of learning and development. Knowing different types of learning styles can drastically improve your teaching.
Identifying particular learning styles children display is not meant to pigeon-hole them. Most people actually have many traits of several different ones.
However, there is always a dominant one or two that should be factored in as to how we are best teaching children.
The learning styles chart below shows the most commonly recognized kids learning styles.
7 Learning Styles
Knowledge of kids learning styles in the classroom, is based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory (Frames of Mind. 1983) and the 7 learning styles he proposed:
It makes sense that if we tap into our kids' learning styles, we will naturally make them more responsive to learning. After all, learning and pleasure go hand-in-hand. The brain becomes more receptive, confidence grows, and achievement rises.
However…
Learning Styles in the Classroom
Here is a quick learning styles assessment you can use with your students.
The questions are designed to be a learning style indicator for the teacher to use to better understand the students and to aid in lesson planning.
Most students show strengths in one of three dominant types of learning styles most utilized by classroom teachers: Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic (also called interactive learning styles).
Once your students have taken the quiz and you have calculated their results, it is time for you to start thinking about how you can use what you know in your lesson plans. You should also use Blooms Taxonomy to best prepare for mastery learning.
When these three types of learning styles are purposefully blended into daily lessons, you will see most of your students achieve beyond your expectations. There is no one perfect way for everyone to learn, and you may have some students who require other learning styles activities, but these three are critical.