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Multi Sensory Approac h I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand .
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Multi Sensory Approach I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. All of us learn through all our senses. Some of us learn better through one sense than another. Some pupils learn best through visual approaches; others through auditory approaches; yet others through a combination of the two.
Multi Sensory Approach Multi = “More than one", Sensory = “Derived from the senses", Multisensory = "Relating to or involving several bodily senses", Multisensory teaching combines three learning senses--auditory(hearing and speaking), visual(seeing and perceiving), and kinesthetic(touch and movement) while teaching students. Lessons are taught using two or more of these modalities simultaneously to receive or express information. Teachers teach in two or more ways, and students can express their responses in a variety of ways.
"Albert Einstein said, 'Learning is experiencing. Everything else is just information.' His insight suggests that we must experience our learning by using our complex sensory systems. Our species has an innate need to see, touch, taste, feel, and hear the features of any new object in order to understand it better,”. Thus, using senses for learning just makes sense!
Auditory learners, or those with "Verbal / Linguistic Intelligence prefer "to hear or read information. They look for explanations with words, “Verbal linguistic intelligence is awakened by the spoken word, by reading someone's ideas thoughts, or poetry, or by writing one's own ideas, thoughts, or poetry, as well as by various kinds of humor such as "plays on words," jokes, and "twists" of the language,"
Auditory instruction involves lecture, recalling information in sequence, and teaching through reading. • It is important to note, reading processing takes place in the language centre of the brain, readingis anAuditory activity, not avisual activity. • Auditory learners prefer to learn by having someone verballyteach them, or through reading. If your child is an auditory learner, standard curriculum materials and traditional teaching methods are likely to be effective for helping your child learn.
Visual learners, or those with "Visual / Spatial Intelligence”, prefer graphs, pictures, and diagrams. They look for visual representations of information,“ • Visual learning content includes anything the learner sees and processes in the pattern-processing & image centre of the brain. This can include two-dimensional pictures, photos, drawings, charts, graphs, tables, diagrams, videos, demonstrations, etc. as well as three-dimensional objects such as artifacts in a museum, animals in a zoo, or a person demonstrating a skill.
Just as reading is not a visual learning activity, text displayed on a T.V. or computer screen, text-based Power point presentations, or any other text-based teaching tool is not a "visual" learning activity either. • Reading can be of benefit to visual learners, if the learner is a good reader. When designing your lessons, you will want to mindful that reading is not, by nature, a visual activity.
As a home schooling parent, you can find visually "rich" ways of teaching your child which will enable him/her to learn faster & better than through strictly traditional teaching methods. Multimedia software programs and videos are ideal for visual learners, as are any hands-on activities.
Kinesthetic learners, or those with "Body / Kinesthetic Intelligence“ "prefer to manipulate objects, do physical experiments, and learn by trying," • "Kinesthetic learners need movement and action,“ They learn by doing, by engaging the muscles in their bodies, by processing movements in their motor cortex, and by remembering the physical movements required to complete a task.
Kinesthetic learners benefit from hands-on, manipulative activities, plays, moving around while memorizing, through re-enactments, art, dance, and other active learning channels
The tactile learning style is almost always joined with the kinesthetic learning. Both styles involve bodily movement, and are very similar, but the tactile style is more moderate. it involves the sense of touch, and fine motor movements, rather than the large, whole-body movements seen in the kinesthetic learning style. The Tactile Learning Style takes in information through the sense of touch and feeling, and generally has good eye-hand coordination.
A person's individual learning style is an important key for reaching learning potential. While learning style is based primarily upon auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and tactile components, it can also encompass other learner preferences • Other aspects of individual learning style include emotional, environmental, sociological, psychological, and physiological preferences.
