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Understand each student's learning style

Understand each student's learning style

From the course: Teaching Technical Skills Through Video

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Understand each student's learning style

- Knowing students means more than merely acquiring information about them, such as their names, ages, their friendship groups, and maybe having some knowledge about their family backgrounds, or a few statistics from their school record. Yes, all this information is important to help you get a better idea of the whole person, but just as important is to know the students' learning styles. Knowing our students' learning styles helps us to both create better learning content that students can relate to and also enables us to match our teaching to the students learning styles by explaining and presenting content in different ways. Equally as important is that you as the teacher know your own dominant learning style. Knowing your own learning style will make you more aware of, and more inclusive of other styles, so you can help reach all learners. And I believe that a teacher's own preferred learning styles often becomes their predominant teaching style. So teachers who are aware of their…

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