I wanted to jot down my thoughts on the leaning modalities we learned and discussed this week. It's interesting to know the statistics for people's learning styles. Visual being the dominant learning type. I think I could do a much better job at addressing this in my teaching. However, when teaching art it seems like sort of a double edged sword. Here's what I've found in my classes.
Because this is my first year teaching, I do not have a lot of student examples of projects or assignments we are working on. This creates a problem when I want to show them the end result of what we are doing. I think that at times it would be very helpful to have a finished product, so they sort of know where we are going, but on the other hand, because they are visual learners whatever image I do show them burns into their memory and they want to copy what they see. This is especially true of my younger students.
Sometimes I really hesitate to draw examples on the board, because I know that I will have students who will lock in on it and copy it. I know that I talk, and talk, and talk to try to explain the assignments and I think I meet the Auditory students needs pretty well. Yet with my older students, I don't think I explain or talk enough. So in the end, I've got a lot of thinking to do, as I try to figure out the perfect balance. But I'm glad that I'm aware of it now.
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