Friday, June 12, 2009

How kids learn

I pulled this article out again this morning from CNN and it was a good reminder that kids have a primary way that they learn. It’s nothing new to all of us, but it’s a good reminder for us as we spend time with our kids and students this summer. The author suggests that kids learn in at least three ways:

Learning by listening
Learning by seeing
Learning with your body

What is your kid's primary learning style? Should the ways kids learn change the way we teach? What needs to change?

1 comments:

antof9 said...

My mom was a teacher way back when, and I remember on multiple occasions, she/her and my dad explaining that the whole "what is your child's learning style" thing was what was meant by the "train up a child in the way he should go (grow?)" passage.

One kid needs a spanking, one kid needs to be sent to his room. It's amazing that different punishments work for different kids! Who knew they weren't robots? :)