BLOG NO.48
Each student is unique, and Hasti Public School not only recognizes this, we celebrate it. Students are the core of what we do. We prepare them for life beyond the classroom and help them to innovate and make positive impacts on the world.
Learning styles are more than just a preference for one type of learning. When a teacher taps into them, they are the key to engaging with material and truly learning it. When our teachers work with our students, they are cued in to what students want. Through building personal relationships with each student teachers and administrators alike grow to understand what truly motivates each students.
This knowledge is the core of how we teach. It informs the activities that we prepare for students and how we present them.
We encourage exploration, self-reflection, and close scrutiny in every class . We encourage students to be involved in the learning process, in self-growth. When students are aware of how they learn best and recognize that they are learning in a way that speaks to their individual learning styles , they are more likely to be engaged with lesson content and to take more personal responsibility for their learning.
The very ways we teach, in general, speak to many students’ dominant learning styles. We encourage active participation in all lessons, avoid lecturing too much, and provide students with ample opportunities to apply what they have learned in ways relevant to their lives and to evaluate what they learn with a critical eye through activities that get them talking, moving, visualizing, and hearing.
There is no one way that each lesson is presented. Overall, students are exposed to lesson material in more than one way, and that provides multiple opportunities for them to learn in ways that are best for them.
We also strive to improve students’ awareness of different learning strategies and help them to develop both sides of their brains so that they think analytically, listen better, and have improved concentration We try to find out which learning style is preferred by students
1*kinesthetic learning style* .
2*Auditory Learning style*
3*visual learning style*
by making child complete the informal inventory
Learning Styles Self-Assessment
1. In order to memorize information, such as the spelling of a difficult word or locker combination, you :
1. Practice over and over again.
2. Recite the word or numbers out loud.
3. Visualize the word or numbers in your head.
2. When you want to learn new song lyrics, you :
1. Dance around and play air guitar to the beat.
2. Sing along to the radio.
3. Download the lyrics and read them.
3. While you study, you like to :
1. Walk around and review your notes.
2. Discuss the material with your parents or friends.
3. Read your notes or textbook independently.
4. When preparing to go somewhere new, you prefer to :
1. Walk, drive, or bike the route ahead of time.
2. Listen to someone tell you how to get there.
3. Look at a map.
5. When you get a new gadget that needs to be assembled, you :
1. Just start putting it together.
2. Ask someone to read you the directions.
3. Read all of the steps before you begin.
6. If you have to work on a project with others, you would rather :
1. Help to build and construct a model.
2. Participate in group discussions and brainstorm ideas.
3. Draw graphs or scribe group notes.
7. You tend to like classes that include:
1. Hands-on experiments.
2. Lots of lectures.
3. Reading assignments.
8. When studying a play in English class, you prefer to :
1. Act it out.
2. Listen to the play read by others.
3. Read the play silently to yourself.
9. When you are able to choose a project and present it to your class, you’d rather :
1. Create a working replica.
2. Give a presentation.
3. Create a poster.
10. When you are distracted, you most often find yourself :
1. Fidgeting or playing with your pencil.
2. Listening to or participating in conversations.
3. Doodling on your notebook paper.
11. When you work at solving a challenging problem, do you :
1. Make a model of the problem or walk through all of the steps in your mind?
2. Call a few friends or talk to an expert for advice?
3. Create a list of the steps you need to take and check them off as they’re done?
Once you have finished, add up the number of a’s, b’s, and c’s. Tally your answers and here you have a snapshot of how a child learn best! If you answered mostly “a”, you are primarily a kinesthetic learner. If you answered mostly “b”, *you are an auditory learner, and if you answered mostly “c”, you are largely a visual learner.
Once the learing style of children is known, we use strategies for each style as under ;
Visual Strategies
• Utilize graphic organizers such as charts, graphs, and diagrams.
• Redraw your pages from memory.
• Replace important words with symbols or initials.
• Highlight important key terms in corresponding colors.
Aural Strategies
• Record your summarized notes and listen to them on tape.
• Talk it out. Have a discussion with others to expand upon your understanding of a topic.
• Reread your notes and/or assignment out loud.
• Explain your notes to your peers/fellow “aural” learners.
Read/Write Strategies
• Write, write and rewrite your words and notes.
• Reword main ideas and principles to gain a deeper understanding.
• Organize diagrams, charts, and graphic organizers into statements.
Kinesthetic Strategies
• Use real life examples, applications and case studies in your summary to help with abstract concepts.
• Redo lab experiments or projects.
• Utilize pictures and photographs that illustrate your idea.
At Hasti Public School we enter into individual relationships with our students and strive to ensure that their individual learning needs are met and exceeded.
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