Identify Your Child’s Learning Style – Some children learn by reading and writing, whilst others need demonstrations and to get involved. This is the idea that there are three predominant learning styles – visual, kinaesthetic, and auditory. If your child’s having a tough time at school, it may be worth evaluating to see which they have. This can be worked out by observations and how they compute information. A short VARK (visual, aural, read/write (R), and kinaesthetic) survey.
You will then be able to tailor activities to their learning needs and hopefully help them get to grips with topics much easier. If you’re new to learning styles, here is some brief background on each and how they can be used to help children in their education.
Visual Learning Style
Those with this learning style prefer visual means of learning, like graphs, videos, and diagrams. If your child is visual, highlighters, coloured pens and sticky notes may be helpful in helping them to differentiate between pieces of information and remember their contents. They could also benefit from sitting at the front of the class where the board is clearly visible.
Auditory Learning Style
Children who are auditory learn through verbal instruction. You may find that adjusting your voice (e.g., using different tones to stress points) and repetition helpful. Learning resources that you may find helpful in teaching those that are auditory are podcasts, videos, and anything else which they can play back. Also, as they rely on their hearing, you may ask their teacher about the possibility of them sitting at the front.
Identify Your Child’s Learning Styl
Kinaesthetic Learning Style
Kinaesthetic learners learn by doing. They prefer hands-on learning activities like experiments and field trips where they can make discoveries of their own. The first-hand experiences give them the chance to understand and learn the logic behind themes. If you’re struggling to come up with ideas and ways to go about this, try looking for real world applications/examples which they can relate to help them with their understanding.
These are just our top tips for helping children with the three classic learning styles. There are more than just these three though – depending on the theorist, it is believed that there are in fact 8 or 12 learning styles in total. For the purpose of this blog, we focused on the 3 that are most widely used and referred to. The newer learning styles may however be able to explain your child’s learning needs better.
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