• As teachers, it is our job to create lesson plans that accommodate our student's unique learning needs. Our lessons should involve a variety of activities that appeal to a variety of learning styles in order to effectively and fairly teach and evaluate our students
• Drama provides teachers with unique strategies to appeal to a variety of learning styles. Students are engaged in lessons that appeal to their learning style. As teachers, this is an effective classroom management strategy to minimize negative behaviours in the classroom and increase student participation.
• Drama provides teachers with unique strategies to appeal to a variety of learning styles. Students are engaged in lessons that appeal to their learning style. As teachers, this is an effective classroom management strategy to minimize negative behaviours in the classroom and increase student participation.
Multiple Intelligence Theory:
• Visual-Spatial: able to visualize and make accurate spatial judgments.
• Musical: produce or appreciate music. An individual with musical intelligence is sound-based and they are typically sensitive to environmental sounds. They often recognize rhythms and patterns.
• Verbal/Linguistic: relate well to words and language and has developed auditory skills.
• Interpersonal: try to see things from another person's point of view and recognize verbal and non-verbal cues. Someone with interpersonal intelligence often makes for a good leader.
• Intrapersonal: often self-reflective and try to understand their own feelings in order to relate to others.
• Logical/Mathematical: have a good ability to reason and think conceptually. Curious about the world and asks a lot of questions.
Strategies:
Verbal/Non-verbal Voice over Narration: Teacher reads a story and students act out the scenes. Alternatively, students can narrating a scene to communicate the significance at that particular time.HOW CAN I USE THIS?
This strategy can be useful to engage a variety of learning styles. This would engage bodily-kinesthetic and visual/spatial learners as they are able to be up and moving around the space. Verbal/Linguistic learners are able to express their intelligence through narration or through relating to the story. Interpersonal learners are engaged as they may be forced to see things from a different perspective when acting in role.
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Choral Speaking: students recite a text in groups. Choral reading can be done using a variety of texts including storybooks, poems, lyrics, etc.
Choral speaking is a useful strategy for appealing to a variety of learners because students are free to experiment with tempo and dynamics to express the written words on the page which appeals to the bodily-kinesthetic, spatial/visual and verbal/linguistic learner. Using storybooks that involve music and mathematics appeals to musical or logical learners. Using storybooks that involve seeing things from another person's point of view or self-reflection will appeal to intrapersonal and interpersonal learners.
Choral speaking can be a useful strategy when creating lessons that appeal to a variety of learners. However, it is important that teachers take time to choose appropriate texts for the activity in order to appeal to our students learning needs.
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HOW CAN I USE THIS?
Mantle of the expert allows students to interact with each other as they seemingly have a real purpose for learning. Therefore, student engagement and motivation levels are increased. Students can be experts in any field. Teachers may choose to designate that their students be an expert in a field which appeals to student's interests of students. Teachers can use activities that accomodate a variety of learning styles as students investigate to find a solution for an issue.
I thought that this strategy was an excellent way to engage students with a variety of learning styles. Giving students the opportunity to act as experts is exciting! I can easily see how this strategy could increase motivation within a classroom. In class we used this strategy to sway a government official to give government funds to one specific organization. Even in the drama class, we were able to come up with entertaining pieces to share with the rest of the class and remained engaged throughout as a result of its components.
I thought that this strategy was an excellent way to engage students with a variety of learning styles. Giving students the opportunity to act as experts is exciting! I can easily see how this strategy could increase motivation within a classroom. In class we used this strategy to sway a government official to give government funds to one specific organization. Even in the drama class, we were able to come up with entertaining pieces to share with the rest of the class and remained engaged throughout as a result of its components.
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Ladybug Garden: each student is assigned one of four bugs (ladybug, butterfly, aphid, wasp). Students sit in chairs in a circle. All students have a chair except one. The student who is standing calls out one of the four bugs. All students who have been assigned that bug need to stand up and find a new chair to sit in. This game can be extended so that before students can sit down in their new seat, they must say one fact about their bug.
HOW CAN I USE THIS?
HOW CAN I USE THIS? Ladybug garden is a useful strategy for reaching a variety of learners because it involves components that require students to be up and moving, but it also requires students to reflect and to think about what they have learned.
