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Discover the importance of recognizing diverse learning styles and implementing varied teaching styles to cater to the individual needs of every student. This article highlights the significance of adapting teaching methods to ensure inclusive and effective education for all children.
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One-Size-Fits-All Learning: A Thing of the Past Theresa Zanatta
“Not all children flourish under a single teaching style. The children who are not compatible with their styles get left out.” Reach to teach!
“We must emphasize the need for teachers to be aware that all children, regardless of their race or ethnicity, have different learning styles.Dr. Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Emory University
Teachers should have a variety of teaching styles. If a child does not master a skill the first time, try again, but not the same way you taught it the first time.”Dr. Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Emory University
What are diverse learning styles? • Learning Modalities • Dunn and Dunn, Beaudry, Klavas • Multiple Intellingences • Howard Gardiner, Armstrong, Daniel Goldman
Learning style is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on, process and retain new and difficult information.Dunn
Learning modalities/ styles • visual • verbal • auditory • tactile
Multiple intelligences • verbal-linguistic, kinesthetic • logical-mathematical • visual-spatial • musical • interpersonal, intrapersonal • naturalist, emotional • Gardner, Armstrong Goldman
Multisensory activities... Hands on….minds on!
I hear it.I see it. I touch it. I say it.I smell it.The Golden Rule of Phonics
In place of student passivity and isolation, we value learning that is both active and interactive.Alfie Kohn, The Schools Our Children Deserve, 1999
Some examples • portfolios • student-made games • realia • pull-out, little books • a letter/word framer
Different learning styles Different interests Different capabilities Different imaginations Everyone is involved!
Opportunities for continual assessment • demonstrating progress • observing language behaviours regularly
The Way to Learning… • Reach to teach every child! • Hands- on is minds-on! • Every child can learn! • Every child can progress! ...the learning way!
Theresa Zanatta daybreak@bcn.servicom.es