Optimizing Your Child's Education Through Getting to Know Your Kid: Learning Preferences

What are your child’s learning preferences?

All of my students have had extensive assessments that tell me whether they learn better with auditory or visual input. Some have more details than others and get even more specific about how they supposedly learn best. And yet, it rarely gives me what I most need to know.

Much like what we talked about previously in terms of all the different ways you might spark interest in a new topic, there are many different ways your child may learn the information provided to them.

Now, unlike many others, I’m not going to try to convince you to discover your child’s “learning style”. Usually, by this they mean is your child a kinesthetic, tactile, auditory, or visual learner.

The truth is: your child, like everyone, is a multimodal learner. They need all of these modalities to learn the best. However, they will get more out of different styles of teaching. They might get more out of what they see than what they hear, for example. Knowing this is helpful, but it’s not going to make or break your child’s learning. Further, what your child experiences will always teach more than what they simply hear, see, or read.

What I really want you to discover though, is what types of experiences your child will best learn from.

Do they prefer to learn from: Books, Videos, Dialogue, Field trips, experiments/ hands on discovery, Answering a question?

Pay attention to how your child responds to each of these. Sometimes what sparks the interest is different from what they learn the most from.

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