Engaging kinaesthetic learners in classrooms

Kinesthetic Learning in kids’ classrooms

My teaching experience

•Students have different learning styles•Students get bored soon when learning by

seeing and listening•They love to do hands-on activities

•Majority of the students are kinaesthetic learners

Area Of StudyEngaging Kinaesthetic learners in

classrooms

Questions:

What are the strategies of utilizing Kinaesthetic movement

with in classroom?

What are some creative ways that kinaesthetic movement might be

incorporated into class curriculum? How much is it effective for

learning ,to have pocket activities in classroom

Tell me I’ll forget show me and I may remember

involve me and I’ll understandConfucius

QuotesIf a child can’t learn the way we teach

maybe should teach the way they learn Ignacio Estrada

Background to the TopicLearning Style:

A range of instructional strategies through which students pursue the act of learning

Most popular learning styles are:

Visual

Auditory

Kinaesthetic

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Learning styles reflect:

• How students learn

• What students pay

attention to

• How students remember

Introduction• Kinaesthetic learning • Kinaesthetic is a method of learning based on: moving, touching or practicing.

Why to move:• 1. Our bodies are designed to move.• 2. Some people think best when they are

moving.• 3. To engage diverse types of learners fully –

kinaesthetic learners or sleepy ones! • 4. To deepen understanding.• 5. To experience a subject from a new

perspective, using kinaesthetic intelligence.• 6. To develop creativity.• 7. To foster community.• 8. To invigorate the body – exercise for health.• 9. To have fun!

Characteristics of Kinaesthetic learners

1.The student does not like to be sitting still and

needs to move. 

2. Kinaesthetic learners hold up their hands even

though they do not know the answer.

3. Gestures when they are talking.

5. Kinaesthetic people love doing things with their own hands.

7. Doodling and tracing pictures or words often

8.Tapping and Shaking their legs during work time

Teaching Strategies for Kinaesthetic Learners

• First: give them the instructions and then the material so they can do it.

•Second: let the students do everything with their hands and they will remember it.

•Third: let them use handout and colour material.

Activities for Kinaesthetic learners

• Experiments

• Field trips

• Role-playing

• Projects

• Games

• EPL/ Montessori exercises

• Pocket activities in classroom

Pocket activities• Scribbling • Tracing • drawing• Letter number or word formation with bean/macoroni• Sand tray• Play dough• Painting• Collage work• Connecting dots• Origami • W. sheets• Modelling clay• Puzzles• Abacus,

Methodology

• Meeting with the staff• Making them plan and implement

pocket activities in their class• Collecting the data and analysing the

findings• Evaluating the effectiveness of these

activities

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Involvement

and attention in

activitiescomprehension

Physical response

Attitude and

motivation