Building Life Skills: What is Your Child's Learning Style?

Why are Learning Styles Important to Building Life Skills?

Knowing how your child learns best is really important for tailoring their educational experience to maximize engagement and success.

Each child has a unique way of processing information. Some kids learn better by seeing things, others by listening, and some by doing.

When parents and teachers understand how a child learns, they can teach in a way that makes it easier for them to understand and remember things. This personalized approach makes learning more fun, boosts confidence, and allows children to reach their full potential.

What are Learning Styles?

A learning style is the way that different students learn. A style of learning refers to an individual's preferred way to absorb, process, comprehend and retain information.

The key learning styles are: visual, auditory, and tactile & kinaesthetic.

Visual Learners

Auditory Learners

Tactile & Kinaesthetic Learners

How The Blue Umbrella can Support Your Child

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Visual Learners

Visual learners prefer to use pictures, graphs and images to organize and communicate their thoughts and learn best from using flash cards. It is a type of learning style in which students prefer to use images, oh graphics, colours and maps to communicate ideas and thoughts.

Visual learners must see information in order to learn it. These learners are likely to have a photographic memory and may use color, tone and brightness to recall information. In class, visual learners will benefit from seeing diagrams drawn out, for example, on a chalkboard and in slideshows.

Visual learning refers to a mode of learning where students rely on graphic aids to remember and learn material. They can easily visualize objects, have a great sense of balance and alignment, are very colour-oriented and can effortlessly envision imagery.

Visual learners learn best by colour-coding their notes, making to-do lists and using concept maps to organize their thoughts.

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Auditory Learners

Auditory learners prefer to listen, discuss, memorize and debate in class. Auditory learning means that a student learns most effectively by listening.

They would prefer listening to a lecture over reading a textbook, or hearing the instructions for a project instead of figuring it out hands-on. For example, a visual learner will want to see an example of the project, while someone who has an auditory focus will prefer to hear about the project.

Students who prefer auditory learning over tactile or visual will be focused on listening instead of seeing, reading, or physically trying in order to learn. Auditory learners like to hear things in order to process the information best, which is often a good option for classroom learning.

They learn best from audiobooks rather than print ones.

Tactile & Kinaesthetic Learners

Tactile learners learn best by touch and movement–they find opportunities to take part in demonstrations, writing or building models. Tactile learners like to write things down or take notes when learning. They also like to doodle and draw. For example, they tend to enjoy reading books, writing stories, and illustrating what they have learned.

Kinaesthetic learners prefer to use their whole body in the learning process–they use gestures to communicate ideas and learn best in a hands-on environment.

Kinaesthetic or tactile learners need to physically to uch or try something in order to learn the concept best. This style is often called multi-sensory learning because tactile learners hear or see to learn, and then complete t heir learning by trying it out themselves.

A kinaesthetic learner wants to try it out for themselves. This is very different from auditory and visual learning where learners need to see or hear instruction in order to learn it. Kinaesthetic is hands-on, focused primarily on a learner trying for themselves as an avenue to learning.

How The Blue Umbrella can Support Your Child

To recap: a learning style refers to an individual's method of making sense of new material, commonly done through sight, touch and sound. Taste and smell, although not as frequently used as the last three, can still be effective when aiming to solidify ideas in our brain.

At The Blue Umbrella, we take pride in providing personalized learning that matches each child's own pace and style. We understand that every child is different, so we tailor our approach to ensure that each student can learn in a way that suits them best.

This commitment to individualized learning means that every child can feel comfortable and confident, making education an enjoyable journey tailored just for them.

Ready to embark on this personalized learning adventure? Join us at The Blue Umbrella and let your child thrive!

Source: tophat.com