Understanding your child’s learning style may guarantee a solid elementary school experience. This, in turn, will help provide a positive school career. And I know…
Mine kinda sucked. Not kinda, it did suck.
Although my years in elementary, middle, and high school life were not so optimal, it did allow me to figure out what I wanted to do and how I was going to do it ( I had a lot of time to doodle and dream away while sitting at the desk!)
However, the key to learning is understanding your learning style
Now that I have kids, I can see why I slipped through the school system. Every child has a different learning style or a combination of styles that parents must recognize so they can choose the ideal school environment for their child. Most kids do have a mixture of styles but usually, 1 or 2 will stand out as the primary style. As a parent, I have put a good amount of effort into supporting the best learning styles and techniques that each of my kids expresses. Like most parents, we want our kids to thrive and have a happy time while in school!
The rundown on the different learning styles
- Visual-Spatial: you are drawn to pictures and images to understand concepts
- Part of the brain used: occipital lobes located at the back of the brain
- Kinesthetic/Feeling/Physical: you are drawn to using your body – hands etc to grasp concepts
- Part of the brain used: the cerebellum and the motor cortex
- Auditory/Listening: you are drawn to sound and music to grasp concepts
- Part of the brain used: the temporal lobes (the right is important for music)
- Verbal/linguistic: you use speech and writing to understand concepts
- Part of the brain used: the temporal and frontal lobes ( Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas)
- Logical: you use math concepts – logic, reasoning – to understand concepts
- Part of the brain used: the parietal lobes
- Social: you work optimally in group settings
- Part of the brain used: the frontal and temporal lobes and the limbic system which control emotions
- Solitary: you work optimally working alone and in self-study
- Part of the brain used: the frontal and the temporal lobes and the limbic system which control emotions
With the creating and producing of my series, Human Body Detectives, I wanted to grasp as many of these different styles as possible to ensure learning… pretty sure I accomplished that!
Happy digesting!
PS All Human Body Detectives are still in the introductory promo price, so go get it out now on Thinkific or on the HBD site
Thanks to Element5 Digital for sharing their work on Unsplash.
