Hoertel, Learning Styles in Action

Even though not all of the learning styles were demo'd,  I think it was important to see some different ways to teach students. These were mainly kinesthetic activities, but I do think they are valuable to all students because the kinesthetic activities usually include more than just one learning style. For example, with the poke hole activity, this combines kinesthetic, visual, and auditory if the students chose to read the activity out loud. Kinesthetic activities are also usually set up more like games instead of a regular worksheet. This entices students to complete the activity. These sorts of kinesthetic activities also allow for variation in the classroom which is also extremely important to students and learning. Even if it is not their particular learning style, students benefit from varied instruction and having things explained in a different way. These kinesthetic activities, like the matching board, also mimic the ways tests are set up. Most tests are not just multiple choice, or true false. Tests usually include a variety of formats and types of questions. These kinesthetic activities help prepare students for different types of tests and test questions.