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Teaching Learning Principles and Practices

Learning Styles and characteristics of Child Adult and Elderly Learner

Unit – 4

Sohail Sajid

Principal

New Life College of Nursing RN, DWA,DTA, Specialized in CHN, Post RN BScN

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Objectives

• Discuss the different learning styles • Apply way to assess learning styles • Discuss the characteristics of a child adult

and elderly learner and list the strategies that are suitable for the adult group of learner.

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Learning Styles

There are three major classifications or types of learning styles recognized. However, environmental factors can also be included as a factor of every individual’s learning style. The three main types of learning styles are:

• Auditory• Visual• Tactile

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Auditory Style

• Auditory learners gain the most knowledge from what they hear. Therefore, they should be encouraged to read aloud when they must understand something from a book.

• Auditory learners should also be encouraged to summarize orally what they have read after they have read it. Summarizing aloud will allow an auditory learner to hear the information, so they can get a better handle on it.

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Auditory Style

• Requiring a verbal summary will allow both you and the auditory learner to know whether they have grasped the material successfully or if whether more time may be needed for additional study.

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Visual Style

• Visual learners retain knowledge best by what they see. These types of learners should use notes that they can read and review later on. They should also make use of highlighters to color code information so it is more visually appealing and easier to read.

• Visual learners retain more knowledge from the use of charts, graphs, and spreadsheets than from oral lectures or other more auditory teaching aids. Computer programs and other types of visual aids can enhance their understanding as well.

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Tactile Style

• Tactile learners retain knowledge the best when they learn through hands on activities and when they move around while learning. Therefore, it is more difficult for the tactile learner to retain knowledge by reading a textbook, either to themselves or aloud, than it is for other types of learners.

• When a tactile learner must know textbook material, they should be encouraged to get up and move around the room while reading. Additionally, they can be encouraged to move their hands or tap their feet while they are otherwise sitting still.

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Way to Assess Learning Styles

• The key to effectively teaching your child is understanding the way he or she receives and processes information. Here are the steps to identifying and teaching to your child's learning style.

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Way to Assess Learning Styles

• Understand the three main learning styles or modalities.

• Observe your child.• Look over various home schooling methods

and programs to find a home schooling curriculum that furnish to your child's strengths. 

• When teaching, use your child's strengths to compensate for areas of their weaknesses.

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Way to Assess Learning Styles

• Teach your child how to study in a way that makes the most of his or her dominant learning style.

• Find ways to help your child develop skills in his or her weaker learning modalities.

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Understand the three main learning styles or modalities.

• Auditory• Visual• Tactile

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Observe your child.

• How does your child express himself? Visual learners may express themselves through facial expression. Auditory learners may express themselves through their words. Tactile learners may express themselves through their body language.

• What are his or her interests? Visual learners are typically interested in videos and images. Auditory learners may enjoy sound and music. Tactile learners are generally interested in physical activities.

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Observe your child.

• How does your child solve problems? Visual learners may use their eyes to find solutions to a particular problems. Auditory learners may want to discuss the possible solutions. Tactile learners will find a solution using their hands.

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Home Schooling Methods

• Auditory learners tend to do well with traditional programs. Tactile learners may need something more hands on, such as a unit study or Montessori program.

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Use Strengths to Compensate Weakness

• Auditory learners do well on reading aloud, conversation, music, and oral drill.

• Visual learners do well on reading, writing, and making charts, graphs, and diagrams.

• Tactile learners do well on touch, large or small muscle movement, and hands-on projects.

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Teach your Child how to Study

• Brain storming • Assess his interest • Use his style • Time bound

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Weaker learning Modalities

• Assess your child’s weakness and support • Try to develop his skill• Support if needed • Encourage and acknowledge his efforts

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Learning Pyramid

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Characteristics of a Children

• When you are a teacher, you should know the characteristic of children, or the characteristic of young learner that you taught. Young learners mean children from the first year of formal schooling (5 or 6 year old) to eleven or twelve year age.

1.Children are already very good in interpreting meaning without necessarily understanding the individual word.

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Characteristics of a Children

2. Children already have great skill in using limited language creativity.

3.  Children frequently learn indirectly rather than directly.

4.   Children take good pleasure in finding and creating fun in what they do.

5.  Children have a ready imagination, children words are full of imagination and desires, and it is more than simply matter of enjoyment.

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The Characteristic of Young Learners

a. Children are developing conceptually: they develop their way of thinking from the concrete to the abstract thing.

b.  Children have no real linguistic, different from the adult learners that already have certain purpose in learning language, for instances, to have a better job, children rarely have such needs in learning a foreign language. They learn subject what school provide for them.

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The Characteristic of Young Learners

c.  Children are still developing; they are developing common skill such as turn talking and the use of body language.

d.  Young children very selfish, they tend to resolve around themselves.       

e.  Children get fed up easily. Children have no choice to attend school. The lack of the choice means that class activities need to be fun interesting and exciting as possible by setting up the interesting activities. 

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Strategies for Older Learner

• Provide personal attention • Help learners to relate new knowledge to

past experience.• Speed works against older learners, so fast

speed may not be successful • Provide opportunity to succeed at

something in every class.

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Strategies for Older Learner

• Provide small amount of information at a time, summarize frequently to increase the retention and recall.

• Use practices, repetition to enhance learning

• Use positive reinforcement to enhance learning.

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