A classroom is a bunch of students with different cognitive capabilities and different learning styles. While some maybe auditory learners, others would be visual learners. Some may find activity based learning useful while others may find cognitive learning useful. So how do we find which student is what kind of learner and do we really have time to cover the same content through multiple learning mechanisms?
One simple way to check the styles of learning is to expose all the students to each of the style for a month and ask their preference at the end of month. While this may be heavily biased based on peer pressure or the content, can be the first step. Then observe if the students improve their learning outcomes and switch the student to a different group based on the outcomes and interactions.
The difficult part would be time management across different learning styles and finally converging them to be effective for the evaluation which is predominantly testing cognitive retention and theoretical understanding. Some ways to do that could be – simultaneous exercises to each group for the same content introduced with one particular style each day by the teacher. Home works and worksheets tailored to different styles, class evaluation and assignments tailored for each style, digital content suitable for different styles prepared beforehand.
Have you tried such approaches? What has been your experience?
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