I’m not sure if this is being mentioned in college courses now, but there has been a huge push in our district for this concept. The ideas and concepts are wonderful and make sense, but once you get into the classroom and come across all new challenges, it can be hard to “differentiate” every lesson. We have had some PD days with this topic and our last one we had a guest speaker, Kathleen Kryza. She also has been teaching a group of individuals at our school. Again, her ideas are great and they make complete sense, but it is very hard to do that when you have so many standards to cover in such a short amount of time. We are on trimesters so 12 weeks of instruction is not a whole lot. Her basic ideas are teaching to student’s learning styles: auditory, visual, kinesthetic. Which if I recall, Nancy teaches that in her classes. She also says you should break your lessons into 3 C’s: Chunk (giving them information) Chew (letting them process what they’ve been giving) Check (making sure they understood or possibly doing self assessments). It might be something to help you lesson plan and think about when developing ideas for your own classroom!
I just did a 15 minute presentation on visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. I think the big things out of these three is really incorporating good visuals, and not just wasting powerpoints or presentation with unimportant text. I also taught a mini-lesson in class today and included many visual stimulating images, the class responded very well and gave me alot of good feedback.
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Yes! I always try to use visuals in my class along with my lectures or what I am talking about. I also (in computers) will have them practice and "do" as I am demoing.
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