Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Math post week 6
This week I started to prepare for my presentation that I will need to have finished for Friday. One of the things I really enjoyed while preparing for my presentation was that the lesson I was researching had numerous suggestions for ativities that coud be done in class to supplement student's learning, as well as, help students retain information in their long term memories. This got me thinking... Can there be a lesson that would have acitivites that are perfectly structured to suit the needs of students with different learning styles (visual, oral, kinesthetic, auditory) all at the same time, during the same class? I am afraid, for example, that if one day I chose to do an activity that is hands-on, that it may really engage students that are kinesthetic learners, however, it may bore students that are auditory, or some other type of learner. So the next day I would look to incorporate an activity that would engage auditory learners, but then the kinesthetic, and other types of learners may feel left out and disengaged. However, I thought that the only way to be fair to all the students would be by having a different activity every class, so that eventually every type of learning strategy has been tried, and every type of learner would benefit from the unique activities that were tailored to their learning style on that given day. This method unfortunately does not seem very efficient. Rather than have one activity that is suited for one particular learning style on one day, and then trying another activity that is suited for another learning style the next day and so on, I am wondering whether there is a way to incorporate every learning style into every activity, everyday. This would be an extraordinary discovery if I could find such activities, because it would mean that there would potentially be an immense increase in productivity and efficiency on a regular basis.
I am not sure if someone has already looked into solving this problem and was lucky enough to find a solution with regards to the field of mathematics, but, I do know that people have already accomplished something very similar in the field of physical exercise with workouts that are referred to as 'compund excersises'. Compound excersises are done in such a way that the person working out is forced to use not just one muscle group, but a whole range of different muscle groups. This way, they have excersied multiple muscle groups in the same amount of time that it would normally take to excersie just one muscle group. Finding a 'compund' activity is something I plan to strive towards as an educator.
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