There
are fewer resources to help kinaesthetic learners–
traditional academic subjects have often discriminated
against kinaesthetic learners and in favour of visual and
auditory styles but most people have at least some
kinaesthetic elements to their learning styles. Try some of
these techniques!
Tactile
/ kinaesthetic learners learn through moving, doing and
touching. You like to learn with a “hands on” approach, you
prefer to learn whilst physically interacting with
resources and benefit from practical demonstrations during
lessons.
Tactile / kinaesthetic learners may struggle to stay
focused on class lectures as you become distracted by your
need for physical activity. You learn best through:
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Hands on activity
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Practical demonstrations
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Experimenting
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Working outside the classroom
During lectures sit near the front & take notes of key information regularly to stop yourself being distracted.
Transfer key information or phrases from notes and text books onto small study cards that you can flick through when revising.
Transfer key information from notes and textbooks to word processed documents – the physical activity of typing will help you focus on the information.
When reading through your notes, study cards or word processed information pace back and forward and read out loud – this will help you remember the information.
Try writing key notes on a topic on post it notes. Stick the notes all over the room in no particular order. Now rearrange the notes into the right order.
Install a little basketball hoop in your room– ask yourself a question or recall an item on a list then shoot! I have no idea why this works but it does!
It is especially important for you to break your study time into manageable chunks. Generally your concentration span is your age +2 minutes-I.e. 17+2=19 minutes in a session. Then 5/10 minutes out and then back to study. You will not be effective in long study sessions.
Try making a big die out of card then write questions on sticky labels and stick them to the die– roll the die and recall the answers.
Link your learning to some type of physical activity.
You might find it helps to have something to fiddle with while you study– suggestions…
