Multisensory Learning Theory

Within the elementary classroom, there is a copious amount of rules, guidelines and considerations a teacher must take into account. Learning theories such as social, cognitive, and behavioral learning should be implemented to provide framework and boundaries for the children. When incorporating learning theories in the classroom, it is important to have a clear understanding of how they work and how they will benefit the child and the teacher. These particular theories allows the teacher to run an efficient and effective classroom from day one.

This study examines the relationship between the uses of using multisensory teaching approach and students’ academic performance in Principles of Business. The literature review will be subdivided into three areas: (1) Theoretical foundations (2) multisensory teaching approach and (3) academic performance. Multi-sensory teaching is a powerful tool for reinforcing teaching in the classroom as it helps get the information across to students. It helps students’ process new information and, it enable students to easily retrieve information already learned. Using a variety of senses simply opens up more doorways into the brain (Adams-Gordon, 2010).

Teaching theories are as much part of the classroom as the student and the teacher. The effect individual theories have on an environment depends how they are incorporated within the classroom in addition to the influence they have had on the curriculum construction. This essay will briefly look at how motivation theory, cognitive and social cognitive theory along with constructivism have impacted on education and the classroom.

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As per Gardner’s multiple intelligences, the naturalistic and intrapersonal aspects of intelligence were those that were addressed the least in the class I observed. The class is almost entirely indoors-only having outside time at the playground-so there no time to develop the ability to recognize patterns in nature. I think the teacher tries to compensate by covering activities that invoice nature themes, such as the lightning worksheet, but there is only so much of nature that can be studied in the air conditioning, under fluorescent lights. Also, there was very little development of intrapersonal intelligence. The teacher mostly relied on consequences as a means to control behavior rarely trying to develop the personal strengths and goals of the students. I also believed that the teacher could have used constructivism; to better enhance instruction and learning. Constructivism is “that learning is meaning, it is reflecting on experienced” (Educational Theories, November 2012). Mrs. Turner could have enhanced lesson to incorporate real life connections to the students to make it meaningful for them. Also, she could have had students predict what was going to happen next in the story. The teacher could have asked

Lifelong learning is fostered when the teacher is a mentor and coach who shares an enthusiasm for learning. By demonstrating that fun and creativity are parts of learning, students will be able to find joy in learning. Instead of a behaviorist classroom of skill and drill and motivation based learning, a constructivist classroom is what I plan to implement. With a hands-on approach and self-discovery, constructivism focuses on the journey to discovery and the individual student. One aspect of learning I plan to implement in

Many educators operate their classrooms using a “learning theory” that they feel optimizes the best learning environment for their students. As an educator it is very important to create your own customized learning theory to use in your classroom. A customized learning theory is developed to create an optimum learning environment for students. Educators have to research and put into practice the ideas that they feel may work best in their classroom. In this paper, I will be discussing my own customized learning theory incorporating theoretical perspectives that I believe make an ideal learning environment.

Effective teachers are aware of different learning theories that influence classroom practice on a daily basis. According to Pritchard (2014), teachers must have an understanding

Learning is a multifaceted perception unique to each individual. In looking to address the intricacies of learning, there have been a multitude of learning theories established over the centuries. To this day new theories are developed and traditional theories continue to be developed and expanded upon. (Swinburne Online, 2016)

It is apparent that within learning and education, there are multiple methods and techniques that individuals believe are the key to knowledge and learning. There are many theorists who have produced models to represent their views and which throughout, I will be able to use to debate my own learning experiences. Examples include Kolb’s learning theory, VAK, VARK and the learning pyramid.

Learning environments are crucial to the success of students in the classroom. There are many different types of learning environments that are used in schools today, but as long as teachers set those environments up in a way that is inviting and conducive to learning then the teachers will have no problems keeping the attention of the students and will be better equipped to keep their students motivated. This paper will give an overview of the importance of learning theory, it will show what an effective teacher looks like, it will cover different methods of learning that is used today, and it will cover different modalities used in the classroom.

Over the course of this semester, I have had the opportunity to learn about educational psychology. I have always enjoyed psychology and was especially interested in how it applied to teaching in the classroom. There were five specific concepts we discussed over the semester that especially interested me. I found that homogenous and heterogeneous grouping, extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, operant conditioning, cooperative learning, and divergent versus convergent thinking are five psychological concepts that every teacher should learn about in preparation for teaching.

in the last part of the twentieth century. Constructivism is a theory which brings cogitation to

Learning is viewed as one of the most important interactive activities in which children engage. Although most learning occurs outside of the school setting, it is the heart of the educational process. Psychologists and philosophers searched to understand the true nature of learning, why and how learning occurs at different stages in life and how it can have an influence through teaching methods and similar endeavors. For many years, various learning theories have been listed as suggestions and these theories differ with understandable reasons. Whether theories are based on scientific evidence or

All modern societies will agree on new modes for teaching skills and for knowledge acquiring. According to comprehensive understanding of teaching and learning, it has to involve in all the cognitive and analytical functions of the human brain. VARK similarly a method which tries to cover all human brain’s capabilities, like, Visual, Aural, Read/Write, and Kinesthetic capacities of the brain. Neil Fleming in 1987 introduced this model of learning and teaching, specifically for the field of Science and it is being used in the world ever since as a standard mode (Fleming, 2011). The use of this model really helped in getting valuable results and is easy to evaluate the effect of the system. Mutimodal is a powerful means of understanding things. The result of my research is as following: Visual 4, Aural 10, Read/ Write 11, Kinesthetic 9. This result shows that I am a person with multimodal preference. The preferable learning technique for me is Read/ Write: yet, with eagerness, I anticipate to search more learning skills