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As a parent, it’s a common ground that we need to understand our child. It might take time to get to know their hobbies, what they like or dislike, and many other things—including knowing their learning styles.
When you understand your child’s learning style, it will also affect their growth and development in the future. So, the earlier you detect the learning styles, the better it is.
In this article, we will unveil everything you need to know about what learning style is and why it really matters to understand your child’s learning style. Let’s get straight into it!
Learning style is kids’ tendencies about which style that they fit best to learn and understand certain concepts better, using their senses. For your information, each child might possess more than one learning style. In general, we have 4 learning styles:
Visual learners are able to gather and understand information easier through visualizations. The easiest examples are pictures, videos, flashcards, mind maps, or even diagrams with captivating visualizations.
Auditory learners can catch information easier through audio. When they listen to information from their teachers or friends, or even hear recorded audio, they will get all the stuff better than written information.
Kinesthetic learners can get a better idea of information easier through movement or doing something. They use their bodies and all human senses.
For kinesthetic learners, the most appropriate way to learn is by doing role play or performing hands-on tasks.
Fundamentally, read-write learners get through their information easily by reading and writing information. They read through books or texts, then write the notes again and re-read the written notes.
When you already know your children’s learning styles, it will be easier to teach everyday stuff to your kids. For example, if you teach your children how to cook, it will be different for various learning styles.
If your kids are visual learners, you can let them watch cooking videos on a certain recipe. Whereas for auditory learners, you can instruct them to hear the instructions from you or recorded audio.
Kinesthetic learners will be asked to do hands-on cooking, while read-write learners can read recipes and write them again in their notes.
Learning can be draining for your kids, not to mention when the materials are quite complex to understand. Once they get back to their home, they might even share their difficulties with you.
However, that will be much easier when you understand your children’s learning styles. Once they get home, they can review the lessons leisurely, according to their own learning styles. Everything gets more effective!
When they grow older, lessons never get easier. By understanding their learning styles, they will be more confident to learn new skills and stuff. Along the way, as they explore new skills, they will be much more confident to learn new stuff.
This early phase of practicing helps your kids to do long-term activities in different things such as determining their life goals, learning new activities, and developing themselves.
Now that you already know everything about learning styles, the most important thing to do is to figure out your children’s learning styles. You might find it confusing, like, how do you know it?
Again, this might take some time, but the best way to know their learning styles is just to observe. Whenever they play and interact with people around them, you have to pay your attention. Don’t plan it beforehand—we believe you’ll notice these moments randomly.
Another one is by observing your children’s weaknesses. When they face challenges, these are the golden times to know their learning styles. If your child finds it difficult to hear oral instructions from you, you can cross out auditory from the list and see other occasions.
So, that is all about learning style and several things on why you need to understand your kids’ learning styles. To know those things, it’s not gonna get easier since you need to go through trial-and-error.
However, once they already know their learning styles, it will be better for you to direct your children in the future—and they can also know themselves better.
Therefore, make sure to know their patterns ever since they were children. If you need such tools to help your children learn, especially for visual learners, Assemblr EDU can be a great alternative!
Assemblr EDU supports visual-based learning as it provides super interactive and real 3D visualizations, which you can make use of as learning aids and educational topics. Let's try it out, and get ready to find your children's learning style soon enough!
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