What Teaching Method Should You Use?
By Sun Kyu Bae |
Published April 10, 2009 |
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Gain some valuable insights into how to homeschool your student for maximum fulfillment and minimum stress!
Still Confused?
“What if I still don’t have clue?” you ask.
No problemo. Cobble samples of any subject you want to teach and teach it to your child – just make sure you have a representative sample of visual, auditory, and tactile curriculum. Then assess which style your child favors most.
“But will I confuse my child if I do this?” you ask.
Your child is way more resilient than you think. A lesson here or there to assess her learning style for each subject won’t destroy her chances of getting into college. And your mileage from determining the learning style of your child will go a long way to avoiding unnecessary frustration down the line – so it’s totally worth it to proceed this way if you don’t know yet your child’s learning style.
So now that you’ve determined your child’s learning style, the next step is to customize the best teaching method to fit her learning style.
Again, no rocket science here – just apply the best teaching method to match your child’s learning style. For example, if your child is prominently tactile in math, then bring out the counting teddy bears, shapes, and Lego blocks, to allow your child to “touch” (and sometimes eat, in the case of M&Ms) each math problem. If your child is primarily auditory in reading, make sure you have a clear voice to emphasize repeating consonant, vowel, and blending sounds for each lesson. If your child is primarily visual and tactile in science, you better be prepared to get a little dirty when explaining by actually getting out to the environment (if possible) appropriate for the subject matter and pointing to the science happening in that environment (and touching it too, as long as its not harmful to your child). Anyway, you get the idea.
To those who wanted more out of this article, I’m afraid there isn’t more to this since it really is a simple and quick process to determine your child’s learning style so that you can then apply the best teaching method for her. And always remember, you don’t need the academics to tell you how to classify your child’s learning style, you can do it better than they can – hands down.
- Sun
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