Learning styles

After completing a learning styles quiz, I learnt that my particular learning style was social (interpersonal). Learning experiences that would suit best with this type of learning style is activities completed in a group or one-on-one with the teacher where ideas can be shared and problems can be solved by talking through them with other class members.

In the classroom, it is important that the diverse range of learning styles are supported in the classroom. For visual learners you would use videos, slides, pictures and visual note taking tools to engage in their learning. For social learners you would establish activities which allows them to share ideas with other class members and be allow oppurtunities for students to actively engage with eachother. Catering for physical learners could involve activities which require students to move around the classroom, for example: getting them to write answers onto the whiteboard.

ICT combined with digital pedagogy is beingly commonly used to support todays learners. With my common use of knowledge I would incorporate ICT into the classroom by using the interative whiteboard which can display videos and websites from the internet. Interactive whiteboards can also be used to physically engage the students within the learning activity. Students are able to come up and circle and move things around on the interactive whiteboard. In my own experience, I have used a data projector, hooked up to my laptop, to display a counting chart, which the students then solved maths problems on the board using the counting chart which was being projected onto the board. I found that the students responded really well to this activity.