1-min Eltt Guide – How Can You Adapt Your Teaching To Different Learning Styles?

To adapt my teaching to my students’ different learning styles, I should do some procedures

For visual learners, I should:

• Utilize visual materials such as pictures, charts, maps, graphs, etc.
• Use body language and facial expressions.
• Use colours to highlight important points in a text.
• Encourage taking notes and provide handouts.
• Use an illustration for the main ideas or brainstorming bubbles before writing.
• Write a story and illustrate it.
• Use multi-media (e.g. computers, videos, and filmstrips)
• Teach in a quiet place away from verbal disturbances.
• Visualize information as a picture to aid memorization.

For auditory learners, I should:

• Run class discussions/debates.
• Make speeches and presentations.
• Read the text out aloud.
• Use music to aid memorization
• Discuss my ideas verbally.
• Use dictation tasks.
• Use verbal analogies, and storytelling to demonstrate my points.

For tactile/Kinesthetic learners, I should:

• Give frequent study breaks.
• Encourage moving around when learning new things.
• Use bright colours to highlight the reading material.
• Dress up my workspace with posters.
• Encourage listening to music while learning.
• Use the “Total Physical Response” teaching approach.

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