This presentation focuses on 2 learning styles: visual and kinesthetic. Coconuts because it is everywhere in India and Turkey because this was done around Thanksgiving time in USA. It brought the staff together on a cultural note.
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CELEBRATE
cultural
awareness
COCONUTS AND TURKEYS
Have you
seen this
look from
students?
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gGardner’sTheory8 learningstyles
Are we expecting this?
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COMPARINGSTUDENT
IntelligenceStrength
Your strengths according to the Multiple
Intelligences model
IntelligenceStrength
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What is your style?
*We usually teach to our style
*Know your personal style
http://www.calproonline.org/eric/textonly
/docgen.asp?tbl=mr&ID=117
CHALLENGE- Feel your discomfort;
see the productivity of students
*take the quiz at below site:
http://www.educationplanner.org/student
s/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml
*Strategies for styles table at below site:
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/p/pfeiferj/edte
305/LearningStyle.html
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Visual/Spatial
Students with visual/spatial intelligence do
well at spatial relationships and learn
visually. They enjoy drawing, creating
3D/objects, illustrating, and learning from
photographs, videos, and other visual aids.
Paint or draw a desert scene.
Create a desert collage.
Look at photos, images
Construct a desert diorama.
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Bodily/Kinesthetic
This student learns best through hands-on
activity: games, movement, role-play, and
building and manipulating things.
Pantomime desert animals and have the
class guess what you are.
Feel/touch then describe desert plant
specimens.
Create a game that can be played in the
desert and teach it to the class
Position fidgety students at a desk from
which they can stand without
interpreting the class
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LET’S GO COCONUTS
1. Read and learn
2. Listen to a videoand learn
3. Participate in preparing drink
4. show and tell