Decades ago teaching was merely an act of giving knowledge to the students, a class was a place where the teacher was standing in front of the students and used to teach the new topic in a magisterial way, so everything that the teacher said was right, with no errors and the students didn´t have the opportunity to give their opinions because it meant a lack of respect to the teacher.
After that, education has changed, time arrived when teachers accepted the students’ opinions and gave them more responsibilities in class with the objective of doing them critical and analytical, but the essence was the same, the teacher in front of the students sharing the knowledge.
Time has been running and the educative setting has changed again. The multiple intelligences set by Howard Gardner were taken into account before doing the teaching process; we could notice that nowadays teachers don´t see the students like learners only, but like persons with different skills and abilities and with different ways of catching the knowledge. So this is very helpful especially for the learners and for their parents because the grades now are sustained in the learning style that the student has.
Learning styles help teachers to evaluate their students in a better way, because a student with visual learning style has different skills than a student with auditory or kinesthetic learning styles and thanks to the training courses that teachers have taken, this topic such as that about multiple intelligences are basis for the teaching process.
Based in what I learned I can suggest to teachers to do a test in order to discover the students´ learning styles since the first day of classes with the objective that teaching be more effectively, you can find some webs to do this test and however here there is a link on which you have to answer 30 questions: http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html or if you prefer you can go to this other link: http://www.wright.edu/~carole.endres/learnstyles.htm
Once the students have detected their learning style it is convenient that teachers help them to improve it as much as they can, for example if they are kinesthetic learners, try to find some pages with activities related to this, e.g. www.hotpotatoes.com
All above mentioned is possible when teacher works with heart especially when He/she is sure that everything he/she does is in benefit of the students.
Maggie
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ResponderEliminarHi my dear Maggie,
ResponderEliminarIt is good from you to emphasize the different steps that education has had.
How has education changed in the last decades?, and now how we should integrate de MI in our teaching process are indispensable factors to have a better quality of education.
Warm greetings,
Loly
Hi dear Loly,
ResponderEliminarThanks for your comments, as you know we have the same experience in the place in which we work.
Take care,
Maggie
Hi Maggie.
ResponderEliminarTo begin I must say that I totally agree with you. Some years ago, students used to have fear from their teachers they were like wise wizards or monsters, student didn´t have the chance to ask questions neither to give their opinions. Now in our classes teacher and students go togheter in the same path to reach knowledge, both of them.
Dear Maggie,
ResponderEliminarI like your blog post and I have borrowed the two URLs that you have posted here for taking the survey of ones learning style, I have posted them on my blog too. I hope you won't mind :-)
Best,
Akifa
Dear Galo,
ResponderEliminarOf course that yes, and that fact makes us happier because the environment in the classroom is better, isn´t it?
Warm greetings,
Maggie
Dear Akifa,
ResponderEliminarOf course I won´t mind, we are colleagues, we are partners, we are friends, we both are attending the same course so the links are helpful for all of us.
Best,
Maggie
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ResponderEliminarHi Maggie
ResponderEliminarI grew up learning with the old teaching style, we had to accept what the teacher said and study under their terms and pace.
Now that I am a teacher, I can say that being exposed to that new style made me reflect on my education and the kind of education I would like to have been exposed to.
As you said, learning styles help teachers to evaluate their students in a better way, because a student with visual learning style has different skills than a student with auditory or kinesthetic learning styles and thanks to the training courses that teachers have taken, this topic such as that about multiple intelligences are basis for the teaching process.
Great post.
Dalton
Dear Dalton,
ResponderEliminarThanks a lot for your opinion, it is great for me to receive the comments of another english teacher because they help me to improve my teahing process.
Wish you all the best;
Maggie