Monday 3 June 2013

Learning Styles and Strategies ,What is your recipe ?

Yet another hectic week, so I'm late with my weekly blog .
This week topic is to reflect on what do we do in class to promote different learning styles and strategies.
We all know that none of our students learn the same way, they are all different , therefore teachers been aware of that very important fact should, at least , find out what kind of student they have, and how do they learn. Sometimes we tend to forget about them and think only on how do we teach, selecting what we like in order to teach, but the focus should be in the students . As I mentioned before, if we use the same strategy over and over again, I woudn´t be doing a good work.



What I do and seems to work  is selecting some resources trying to focus on different learning styles and then let them decide what suit them best . They seem to be more willing to work with a tool, website or resource when given the chance to decide for themselves and in that wayy they feel valued and confident.
The job of the teacher is nonetheless, to supervise and to monitor that the student's choice was appropriate.

Technologies are a great source to find a lot of information, resources and activities to complement student's learning process , it seems that we can find everything we need and everything we are looking for, if we are good at searching and selecting information. That is why we need to be careful when allowing our students to select themselves.




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