engaging kinaesthetic learners in classrooms
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Kinesthetic Learning in kids’ classrooms
My teaching experience
•Students have different learning styles•Students get bored soon when learning by
seeing and listening•They love to do hands-on activities
•Majority of the students are kinaesthetic learners
Area Of StudyEngaging Kinaesthetic learners in
classrooms
Questions:
What are the strategies of utilizing Kinaesthetic movement
with in classroom?
What are some creative ways that kinaesthetic movement might be
incorporated into class curriculum? How much is it effective for
learning ,to have pocket activities in classroom
Tell me I’ll forget show me and I may remember
involve me and I’ll understandConfucius
QuotesIf a child can’t learn the way we teach
maybe should teach the way they learn Ignacio Estrada
Background to the TopicLearning Style:
A range of instructional strategies through which students pursue the act of learning
Most popular learning styles are:
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic
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Learning styles reflect:
• How students learn
• What students pay
attention to
• How students remember
Introduction• Kinaesthetic learning • Kinaesthetic is a method of learning based on: moving, touching or practicing.
Why to move:• 1. Our bodies are designed to move.• 2. Some people think best when they are
moving.• 3. To engage diverse types of learners fully –
kinaesthetic learners or sleepy ones! • 4. To deepen understanding.• 5. To experience a subject from a new
perspective, using kinaesthetic intelligence.• 6. To develop creativity.• 7. To foster community.• 8. To invigorate the body – exercise for health.• 9. To have fun!
Characteristics of Kinaesthetic learners
1.The student does not like to be sitting still and
needs to move.
2. Kinaesthetic learners hold up their hands even
though they do not know the answer.
3. Gestures when they are talking.
5. Kinaesthetic people love doing things with their own hands.
7. Doodling and tracing pictures or words often
8.Tapping and Shaking their legs during work time
Teaching Strategies for Kinaesthetic Learners
• First: give them the instructions and then the material so they can do it.
•Second: let the students do everything with their hands and they will remember it.
•Third: let them use handout and colour material.
Activities for Kinaesthetic learners
• Experiments
• Field trips
• Role-playing
• Projects
• Games
• EPL/ Montessori exercises
• Pocket activities in classroom
Pocket activities• Scribbling • Tracing • drawing• Letter number or word formation with bean/macoroni• Sand tray• Play dough• Painting• Collage work• Connecting dots• Origami • W. sheets• Modelling clay• Puzzles• Abacus,
Methodology
• Meeting with the staff• Making them plan and implement
pocket activities in their class• Collecting the data and analysing the
findings• Evaluating the effectiveness of these
activities
Observation tool formatlow Low
mediummedium Low
high high
Involvement
and attention in
activitiescomprehension
Physical response
Attitude and
motivation