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Discover Your Child's Learning Style
Talkers, Watchers, and Doers
Bringing Out the Giftedness in Your Child |
KIDS
Your Child's Unique Learning Style!!!
by
Harriet S. Mosatche and Karen Unger
from
the Bay Area Parents
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Many children
have a dominant learning style, a preferred
way of learning and acting. By tapping
into your child's personality and
understanding the lens through which he or
she best relates to the world, you can help
build a foundation of success and
self-confidence, as well as an increased
desire to learn.
In his ground breaking 1983 book,
Frames of Mind: The theory of Multiple
Intelligences, Howard Gardner
questioned the traditional views of
intelligence. He theorized that intelligence
is more than just the math and verbal skills
that are measured by an IQ test.
Gardner described at least eight
intelligences, including strength in:
- Reading
- Math and logic
- Forming personal relationships
- Movement & athletics
- Design and recognizing relationships
- Singing and music
- Understanding oneself
- Understanding nature
Children usually have a combination
of strengths, with one that may be
dominants. As a parent, you may notice this
dominance from the time your child is a
toddler (an early reader, walker or
musician). Or, you may see a child's style
emerge and develop over time.
Gardner's theories are now commonly
translated into many school programs and
textbooks. Your child may no longer do
a standard history report, instead acting
out a famous incident in history, (good for
the mover - a kinesthetic learner) or
plotting a graph of historical events (good
for a spatial learner - strength in design)
or leading a project team (good for the
interpersonal learner).
What Parents Can Do
If your child's classroom situation
doesn't suit his preferred style of
learning, you can use the strategies
described below to work with his teachers or
support his strengths at home. By
focusing on your child's strengths and
helping him discover new ones, you can use
his achievements beyond the classroom to
help him stay motivated at school.
Liz knew
the alphabet very early and loved being read
to. At 10, she's still rarely without
a book in hand.
If you were Liz's parent, what strategy
might you use to maintain her interest in
reading, while also making sure she doesn't
cut herself off from other opportunities?
Her love of reading helps her excel
in many subjects, but you could also help
her organize a book club with some
classmates, so that reading becomes a route
to friendship, or talk to her about what is
she reading. Ask her questions such
as, "What other ending could the book have
had?" to help her analyze ideas.
Mathew
has always been curious. As a toddler
he loved looking for bugs outdoors and
taking things apart and trying to put them
back together. Completing worksheets
is his idea of homework torture.
Look at Mathew's curiosity, strength
in spatial relationships and love of nature
as traits that will serve him well in his
life. If he attends school that
doesn't provide a lot of hands-on
exportation, ask for a conference with the
teacher. Perhaps you could work together to
find assignments that allow him to use his
interests in asking questions and
experimenting/ Homework could be an
opportunity for creativity - perhaps a paper
and pencil task or report can transformed
into a project. Instead of answering
questions about air and water pollution, he
could do experiments at home and share the
results in class through a video he makes.
If the teacher is not receptive to
reframing assignments, you can keep your
child motivated by helping him complete his
work as assigned and then creating that
video together as a family activity.
Encourage his interests through hobbies
(camping or hiking) and find out about
related after-school clubs (science or
outdoors) and youth programs.
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