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Multi-sensory learning We all use our five senses for learning. Seeing
Hearing
Touching
Tasting
Smelling
Discuss the following statements What do they tell us? • There was a time when you used you sense of taste to learn about the world. • Dogs use their sense of smell to decide who they like and who is a threat. • Blind people show a remarkable development in their other senses. • Learning would be impossible without using our senses.
Preferred Learning Styles As adults we mainly use three senses for learning – but we tend to have a preference for learning using one of the three senses. Visual:
About 29% of us prefer to learn by seeing.
Auditory:
About 34% of us prefer to learn by listening to sounds and patterns of sound.
Kinaesthetic: About 37% of us prefer to learn by doing - experiencing it physically.
You need to know if YOU have a learning preference because it can affect your success if you depend too much on one way of learning. Holmfirth High School
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Tick which of these apply to you:
Visual Learners Have a neat and tidy workplace Good presentation skills Plan ahead Like to look good Enjoy pictures and maps Don’t always listen well Daydream a lot Draw, scribble and doodle
Auditory Learners Talk to themselves in the shower or loo
Say ‘I see what you mean’
Tell jokes Like speeches and singing out loud Prefer verbal instructions Are distracted by noise Enjoy rhyme/rhythm Listen well
kinesthetic Learners
Discuss and argue well
Like physical activity
Say ‘Sounds great to me’
Like to make things Use gestures Fidget and get distracted Need to do things to remember them Enjoy sport, drama, dance Like action and action words Say ‘I’ll handle that’
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Now check out your sensory preference using this questionnaire. Tick which of the three alternatives applies most closely to your preference for learning. I like:
Visual
Hearing
Doing
Seeing
Auditory
Kinesthetic
to learn through:
pictures/diagrams
listening to teachers,
/videos
tapes or people
practical activity
speaking to spell by:
to relax through:
seeing the word in my
sounding out the
writing the word out
mind
letters
a number of times
watching TV, sports
listening to music or
playing games or
or films
the radio
sport
to learn a foreign
looking at cards,
language through:
posters, videos and
listening to tapes
playing games and
and saying the words
role-plays
watching a
listening to
playing it
demonstration
instructions and
book to learn a new sport by:
talking to a coach to learn in science by:
looking at diagrams in
listening to a teacher
doing practical
books and teacher
talking
experiments
seeing images,
hearing sounds, words
focussing on action
scenes, faces and
or music
and feelings about
demonstrations to remember events by:
colours
an event
to write:
descriptive passages
speech and dialogue
action stories
to find out information
looking in books
Asking an expert and
Surfing the
listening to them
worldwide web
by: Which best describes
I like to plan ahead
I sometimes talk or
I get restless if I
you best?
and see the future
sing to myself
sit still for too long
Total scores in each column V
A
Are you an auditory, visual or kinesthetic learner? Holmfirth High School
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Be a powerful visual learner The best learners use ALL their senses to help them learn Whatever your particular preference you need to develop each of your senses for learning. Here are two powerful learning tools to help you make the most of your visual learning.
Learning Maps Creating a mind map involves using all the important information you need to know, but writing it down in a way that is brainfriendly and captures your visual imagination. Most of the time we write our notes in lists and paragraphs. This does not always help us remember them. Good learning maps use:
Colour Symbols and images Pictures Words These are brain-friendly and give us visual simulation. Start a Mind Map about you - use words to grow your ideas from the central point. At the centre there is a box marked ‘Me’. Add: where you live, what type of house or flat you live in, people in your family, pets, your personality, your hobbies and so on. Connect the words with lines. It doesn’t matter if it is untidy – just get down as much as you can. Holmfirth High School Holmfirth High School
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Using your inner eye Do you remember in words or pictures? Developing your visual learning
•
Imagine a cat sitting on the desk in front
involves being able to create
of you. Write down exactly what it looks
pictures in your mind and then
like and what it is doing.
using them to help you learn. •
Think about your last lesson. Describe what you can see in your mind – every detail.
•
Now recall the best lesson/experience that you have ever had. Make the picture in your head bright and colourful and as big as a cinema screen. Describe it to each other in pairs. How does it make you feel to see it in your head?
Write about the cat below
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Auditory Learning - learn with your ears Some people learn well when they are listening. This is a very important skill to acquire, as so much of what we have to learn requires good listening.
You sometimes hear sounds from your insides – write what
Listen to the sounds around you – jot down
have you heard?
everything you can hear.
What do you think makes a good listener? List two qualities of a good
How do you know that you have heard something? What mental processes go on after you heard something important?
listener.
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Kinesthetic learning Some people learn best by practical activity They like to get on and do things, rather than listen to instructions or watch a video. Kinesthetic learners find it hard to sit still but they need to learn through their other senses too. If you are not naturally Kinesthetic you still need to make sure that you get involved in practical activity, because this way your brain will keep
I can handle that! I just jump in and get on with it. Actions speak louder than words.
developing. Practical exercises do help you learn something more thoroughly.
Learn French through Role-Play Make up a play using as many of these twelve French words as possible. You can only speak French and the rest of the play must be mimed.
Bonjour (hello) ‘bo’ – as in box ‘j’ – as in joke ‘our’ – as in your Bien (well/good) ‘bee’ – as in buzzy bee! ‘a’ - as is Anne Au revoir (goodbye) ‘au’ – as in oh dear ‘rev’ – as in revise ‘w’ ‘oir’ – as in are Chat (cat) ‘ch’ – as in shut ‘a’ – as in Anne
S’il vous plait (please) Mange (eat) ‘mon’ – as in the artist Monet ‘siv’ – as in sieve ‘ge’ – as in the end of orange ‘oo’ – as in voodoo ‘play’ – as in play Maison (house) ‘mais’ - as is maize Jambon (ham) ‘on’ – as is on, without the ‘n’ ‘ge’ – as in the end of orange Jus d’orange (orange juice) ‘am’ – as in ham ‘j’ ‘oose’ – as in choose ‘bo’ – as in box ‘door’ – as in door ‘ar’ – as in far Fromage (cheese) ‘nge’ – as in change ‘from’ – as in from ‘age’ – as in mirage Chien (dog) ‘chi’ – as in she L’eau (water) ‘a’ – as in Anne ‘lo’ – as in lo and behold
Now test your knowledge of the French vocabulary. Remember – Role-play helps you learn by doing. Holmfirth High School Holmfirth High School
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