I really liked the opportunity to brainstorm a lesson plan for high school kids, as this is something I have absolutely no experience with. I have only taught adults, and can manage a lesson plan for an adult class pretty easily, but figuring out things that would work for 10th grade classroom was interesting and exciting. I think we came up with a pretty good plan overall!
It was also interesting to do a learning style test, I knew that I am visual learner, with audio not far behind, but I was surprised to score quite high on kinesthetic as well. I know that I memorize poems best if I do something at the same time. There was one long monologue we were supposed to recite in 8 grade. I started learning it walking in circles around the room, then I got 2 balls and started juggling. Then one of the balls landed under the couch and that was where I memorized the final part. I guess I drifted from kinesthetic approach a bit through my high school and college years, but I still like to lesson plan so that my students will have to do something TPR based.
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Fun story with the juggling. You truly do have a high kinesthetic tendency.
I scored high on that as well, but I don't have any real life memory that lets me place it in my life.
The question I have is how do we access those learners in something without disrupting/disturbing the rest of the group?
I think we can access them by planning something necessary for them that would be also fun for others. For example, when we were covering food-related topics I asked my students to think of a restaurant they'd like to own. In small groups they had to draw a floor plan, develop a menu, any decorations etc.
Similiarly, during the class delivering physically active roles to kinesthetic pupils and other roles to visual and audio pupils might work as well.
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