Visual learners and a flipped classroom?
Learning styles to me feel new. I never grew up knowing that people learned differently or that we might be on different levels and in fact I think that it was frowned upon to think of yourself as unique in terms of education. Wow, have times changed! Now students are expected to get to know themselves and take responsibility for their education in terms of knowing how they learn and what "level" they are on not to mention any goals that they are working towards or objectives they are currently working on. I never had that and I was always a good student/learner, but I love that all this information can help students who struggle to find the exact path that suits them. So I took a short online quiz that we give our students at work and learned that I am mostly a visual learner and then auditory and not much of a kinesthetic learner. As a visual leaner, I like lists, pictures, and charts to organize information. I also tend to use highlighting and underlining to better understand things and in order to process them. How can this information help my teacher or any teacher teach a visual learner? Easy! If I was not getting something, you could underline a key word or sketch a photo of what you are trying to explain in math because those are the strategies I have developed for myself growing up in order to learn something. In terms of a flipped classroom how would I do?
I think in a flipped classroom I would do well just because I am a motivated student and learner. If the online resources were not just reading a text it would come easier to me if it also included media or charts, but I would find a way to get the information. The ways I could see it not working are for those visual learners who are not motivated. If the home lesson doesn't make sense to them visually or are just a set of boring words to read and memorize I could see them and myself struggling, but if its a video that you need to interpret after watching we would blow it out of the park. lol I don't know how I feel about a flipped classroom, it sounds like a good idea, but I would have to see how the lessons would look and the population that I worked with first. The population I work with now our students have no internet or support for homework as their parents often don't speak the language. We have to send work that is at an independent level with clear examples so that they can work on it alone. So, I believe for them it would take a lot of extra work that these families don't have.


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