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Teach English in Qingguji Zhen - Heze Shi

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I. Introduction 1.1 Describing the Central Issue: What are Kinesthetic Learners? Kinesthetic learners are learners that learn through objects that they can touch and explore. They’re more fascinated by movements to be able to learn or they're the one who need hands-on learning. They learn quickly and permanently what they do as they're learning. They also learn best by discovering and experiencing. These students like physical activities that involve getting out of their seat, moving around and touching things. Not like with the visual and auditory learners, kinesthetic learners are a bit tough to accommodate since of their nature of being physically active. As teachers, we must always be versatile enough to understand the appropriate ways that we could incorporate with these learners. 1.2 Hypothetical Question: In this study, the line of research is concentrated on the proper approaches and strategies to effectively teach kinesthetic learners. Although there are numerous approaches that we might use to be able to teach them, some of these ways are most unlikely to create them feel more comfortable and interested throughout lesson proper. in this case, we will determine more about the most effective ways or methods that we might generally use for kinesthetic learners, whether it'd be adults, children or the young at hearts. II. Thesis Support/Body Like we've said a while ago, kinesthetic are more on physical response. So, no wonder that these learners need activities to be able to keep them up throughout discussions and lessons. But beforehand, let us discuss first what are the ways for them to learn and how do they express themselves. Kinesthetic Learners use their hands to speak. They create several gestures and describe things with their hands or perhaps their entire body. They even have excellent hand-eye coordination that's excellent for games and body activities. For this case, they're better suited using the Total Physical Response Teaching Strategy. Total Physical Response requires mimicking or repeating to be able to process the knowledge given for the learners to respond to any questions or commands. In this case, activities with TPR are enormously fun for students. These activities are excellent ways to urge young learners up and about. Though they require a lot of energy and effort out of teachers, physically-speaking, they require less preparation. Finally, activities with TPR are great for kinesthetic learners who would like more action or hands on activities. We can currently perceive how they could learn. Since they need a total Physical Response, they may feel sleepy headed and boring if you’re going to allow them to simply listen and look at your visual aids or video presentation. There is plethora of fun ways for kinesthetic learners to learn. Engaging them in activities that might create them additional participative and responsive is completely necessary. Let’s look some of the fun ways for kinesthetic learners to learn: 1. Games: A classic yet effective activity is conducting a game. There are plenty of games that you could use as long as you squeeze those creative juices as a teacher. One of the examples that you could use is charades, a classic game best suited to action verbs and sports. for example, to be able to teach verbs, you need to act out each of the verb words yourself, and have students said each aloud with you. After that, you can divide the class into two groups. Each student should act out the words then his or her teammates will guess what it is. Encourage them to be silly, make faces or exaggerate their actions if they need to. His or her teammates need to answer in a complete sentence: you are running. 2. Learning Songs: This activity is generally applicable to young learners since they like to sing songs, however if you add some movement or miming, they’ll enjoy them so much more. In fact, it's tough for most kids to sing songs while sitting all the time. Singing and moving comes naturally to them. So, why not take advantage of this and incorporate various songs with movement? Here are some great songs you can use or adapt to fit your needs: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes – A classic song used to teach children the parts of the body. Wheels on the Bus – Have them line up and go around the room in a single or double file, or organize their seats so that they resemble a bus. 3. Move around the Classroom: This activity is great for kids and adult students. You will need some objects as their props – and you may give as many as you would like to use. First, you must pantomime a series of actions while you say the phrases. Then you say the phrases and ask a student to pantomime the actions. You can try this with several students and use completely different objects. Finally, they must do it on their own and walk around the room interacting with objects. Try something like this: You open the door. You look inside of your room. You see a box. You open it. You see a dress inside. You get it. It looks beautiful. You wear it. You look in the box again. You see a wand. You get it. You wave it. You now look like a fairy! 4. Role and Action Playing: This activity is more appropriate for adult students. You have to provide each student a role to play or act out. Tell the student what scenario he or she should act out, but don’t tell the other student what it is. For example: Student A – you need to find the closest public toilet and you ask somebody for directions. You can’t speak English well, and only understand some basic expressions. Student B – you will be stopped in the street by someone who needs directions, however this person can’t speak English well, thus you must interpret the words in gestures to find out where they need to go. 5. Fly Swat: The Fly Swat game works best for vocabulary review, and is nice to play at the end of a lesson introducing new subject material. You can also use this game to assist students with understanding synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. What You Need: Two fly swatters PowerPoint or a whiteboard A projector (if using PowerPoint) Set Up: Using PowerPoint (or merely write on the board), prepare a slide full of vocabulary words sprawling all over the page. Have a series of definitions and questions about those vocabulary words ready to read to the students. To make it extra fun, write the words on pictures of flies! Split the class in half and be prepared for a good time. How to Play: Each team sends up one person to the front of the classroom and they are each given a fly swatter. Read the question aloud, and then the first student to swat the answer on the board wins the round! Note: feel free to ask a similar question more than once, as repetition could be a part of the learning process! You can also declare the rule that you simply may only hit one word per turn, to prevent students from mindlessly hitting as many words as they can. 6. Telephone: It is a game which will help develop your students’ English listening skills. It additionally helps students practice word pronunciation and articulation of sounds that they’re not used to making. Thus telephone encourages listening and comprehension skills, while still permitting students to urge a bit of speaking practice in there, too! What You Need: A class filled with ears! Set Up: Have all of the students sit or stand in a line or a circle. How to Play: Make up a phrase or sentence and whisper it in the first student’s ear. That student then whispers the phrase to the next person, and so on and so forth. If anyone would like the phrase repeated to them, students will say “Operator!” however this can only be done once per person. At the end of the game it’s always really funny to see how different the phrase turns out! Note: A lot of various ways to play this game is to separate the class into two groups and see who gets closest to the original phrase! 7. Hangman: Hangman is an oldie but goodie. All the students need is a pen and paper and a good idea! so instead of choosing the word for the group let the students alternate picking the word each round and drawing the blanks. Encourage students to use their new vocabulary words so they'll apply orthography. At the top of every game, have students either talk about the definition of the uncovered word or try and use it in a sentence. Hangman can work well after any kind of ESL lesson. It can be used to practice vocabulary or numerous parts of speech! For extra fun, have the students play hangman once watching a video clip and only allow them to use words from the clip that they watched! 8. Song Puzzle: For this game, you’ll need to choose a song and print out the lyrics with enough space between lines such that you can simply cut the lyrics into strips. Separate students into small groups of 2 or 3 and provides each group a complete set of the lyric strips. Then play the song over and over, while the groups try to organize the lyrics into the proper order. The first group to arrange the lyrics correctly wins the game. After the students have all figured out the correct order of the lyrics, sing them aloud as a class together! Doing song puzzles reinforces sentence order and helps students with their fluency of speech. 9. Story Telling Memory Game: In this game, students should form and sit in a circle. the first person (this can be you, however it doesn't need to be) starts the story with a fragment phrase like “It was holiday,” and so the next person must repeat what the first person said and add a phrase of their own. for example, “It was holiday and the night is cold…” Keep going around the circle till someone messes up! Students love this game because they get to work together to be creative with their imagination. you could have someone write down the story, and so hang it up in your classroom for students to remember and get a good laugh! Telling stories in a class benefit students in an infinite way. Creative thinking encourages English learners to use words that they don’t use on a day to day basis, and making a story allows students to practice sentence structure in a casual and funny way! Benefits of Being a Kinesthetic Learner Though kinesthetic learners might need a great deal of movements in a class, and might exhaust teachers, it'll also provide benefits that will enhance the entire well-being of a learner. 1. Being a kinesthetic learner, it helps them produce a connection between language and its concepts. An example would be improvising creative movements/materials to indicate various ideas like “big and small”. Even a simple activity of mimicking an animal action or sound also can facilitate them establish associations between words, sounds and meanings. 2. Kinesthetic learner encompasses a good comprehension too. An idea can be understood better with physical activities. an example will be an interesting activity such as word dance. Word challenges can be overcome by this activity where children will practice understanding a word using bodily gestures and a vibrant music which will keep it a lot interesting to kids. 3. A kinesthetic learner features a good development of cognitive skills. Sequencing, following directions and other cognitive skills are often developed through the utilization of kinesthetic activities. Accompanying actions/music while having them read or listen to a story will help students perceive and re-call the events in story and afterward reproduce or reconstruct the sequence of events. 4. A kinesthetic learner has a smart development of social skills. When children get to mingle with different kids in a group it'll help them develop positive social interactions where they learn to communicate and collaborate. They also can learn the values of trust, discipline and persistence. Skills such as creativity, problem solving, and observation can also be developed by participating students in creative kinesthetic activities. 5. Repetitive Exercise Builds Muscle and Brain Strength Physical repetition strengthens muscle memory or builds confidence as well as exercise brings results. Typically we need to alter some movements to be able to gain new strength, whether or not it might physical or mental. Other times, we need to learn from the variations in experimentation.. 6. Movements helps kinesthetic Learners learn more Some of us learn best by doing. those who do opt to use their hands and bodies instead of reading, visualizing or listening, are willing to spend longer time on learning through movement. If this is often true for you, then you're primarily a kinesthetic learner. Kinesthetic learners are more efficient once they participate in physical activities like science experiments, sports or perhaps recreational activities like dancing. When kinesthetic learners should learn by listening or reading, they usually prefer to move something with their hands to satisfy their tactile instincts. 7. Kinesthetic Learning appeals to everyone With the supplemental benefits of physical movement such as exercise, kinesthetic learning appeals not solely to those to whom it comes naturally but also to anyone trying to find ways to enhance their intelligence. Understanding Kinesthetic Learners Active learning is vital to the kinesthetic learner. These learners usually have to be compelled to bit or do one thing so as to process new information. Even if new information is known through seeing or hearing, kinesthetic learners prefer to have something to do – an exercise, a worksheet…before it will sink in, be really understood, and master. Some kinesthetic learners notice it troublesome to take a seat still for long periods of your time. Their brains square measure stirred up by physical movement or bit, so being sedentary can set up a situation where the brain stops absorbing information due to lack of physical stimulation. For this reason, kinesthetic students can find the classroom setting challenging. If they are expected to sit, read, watch or listen for long periods of time they can easily find their thoughts and attention drifting. Students who doodles a lot while listening, tapping their pens or wiggling their feet are most often kinesthetic students. This behavior (while potentially distracting to other students or to the teacher) can actually help the student to stay focused. Some subjects can be challenging for kinesthetic learners. Essay writing will create difficulties as a result of students will feel caught up in such a big amount of words and ideas with nothing (physically) concrete to figure with. Math higher than the grade four level may be troublesome for kinesthetic students to relate to. If the ideas and formulas square measure incontestable as they operate within the globe, this potential problem can be avoided (for example, finding the volume of a cup using a real cup and water still because the applicable mathematical equations). Again, if the student is expected merely to work with concepts and formulas as they are presented orally or on paper, this may be quite difficult for the kinesthetic learner. Reading long excerpts from texts could tire a kinesthetic mind. So many words simply sitting there on the page could overwhelm the kinesthetic brain. Kinesthetic students have to be compelled to take responsibility for asking that info be conferred in an exceedingly manner that they will relate to. Asking, for example: “Can you show us how this works?” “What should I do here?” “What steps should I do to complete this problem?” So how can a kinesthetic learner be an efficient learner? Here are some of the tips that we should advise them: • Study for short (but intense) periods - 50 minutes at max. • Sit on a ball rather than a chair when studying at home (this keeps the body constantly in action). • Underline or highlight as you read - or at least follow along with your finger. • Cover the page below where you are reading if you are reading dense text. • Make up actions to memorize new information - perform skits with study partners to remember poetry, history facts, plays, etc. • For math or science, do many practice problems to be sure you understand. • Try walking or bouncing a basketball, etc. while reciting information. • Write brainstormed ideas for essays on individual cards so that you can move them around to decide where to put them in the essay. • Create an outline of a chapter as you are reading it - maybe in cartoon form. • Write ideas on a gigantic piece of paper or white board with many colors to keep yourself very physical while brainstorming or reviewing notes. • Check if it’s attainable for assignments to be completed in project kind (for example a PowerPoint presentation of an essay instead of a written essay). • For spelling practice, try acting out the letters with your body, or drawing them with a chopstick (or your finger) in a pan of rice. • Keep a stress ball in your pocket to squeeze during class to help you maintain focus. How to Teach a Kinesthetic Learner? Many people are having a tough time thinking of activities that will make students interact in and feel snug and fun. We tend to a lot of exhausted since we want to contend with extremely proactive students who wished to wander around and move. Often, kinesthetic learners are misunderstood. Their want for movement is typically viewed as a behavior drawback. These are often the students who are perpetually being told to "sit still" in their desks. Sadly the more we tend to urge kinesthetic learners to sit down still, the more they appear to want to maneuver. Once we perceive that movement may be a learning vogue, the more success we'll have with these terribly special learners. We are able to learn to create the necessity to move work FOR us. Two alternative necessary methods that are powerful for kinesthetic learners are story and visual. So, to recap, the 3 best methods to use once teaching a kinesthetic learner are: 1. Movement 2. Story 3. Visuals A teacher ought to address the needs of the kinesthetic learner by incorporating hand and body motions, visuals and story in each idea instructed. This is often why we are here. We’ve got spent years developing teaching resources that by their very nature are multisensory and meet the requirements of visual learners, kinesthetic/tactile learners, and right-brain learners. Those designations cowl a large number of various learning designs and preferences. During this case, we should always bring out the most effective of them by learning their strengths that we are able to later use as a guide however we tend to may teach them effectively: • Learns best through movement • Will target the whole picture (when you raise them to explain one) • Learns best with 3D materials • Needs to maneuver while processing new data; however with little or no external stimulation that will distract (let the body move but limit objects and visuals within the atmosphere that will capture their focus off from the lesson) • Needs to learn using hands-on activities to process learning • Is usually extremely intuitive • Needs to physically process what he's learning - allow them to really do the work instead of listening on how it's done What are smart practices that edges Kinesthetic Learners? 1. Provide them lots of outdoor time. A small study of children with high attention deficit disorder last year found that walks outdoors perceived to improve scores on tests of attention and concentration. (Taken from a New York Times article by Tara Parker-Pope) 2. Allow them to move! They’re going to learn a lot quickly and effectively if you let them stand at their table, swing their legs, pace the ground - as long as they're not disrupting other students. 3. Divide long lessons into smaller chunks, modify teaching location (sit on floor covering, sit in desks, go outside, switch seats, etc.) 4. If you're teaching steps for resolving a problem, have students imagine they’re following the steps. 5. Their attention follows their hands. Encourage them to draw sketches or diagrams of what they're hearing during a lesson, or when doing a sheet of mathematics problems, teach them to point out every problem they are available to. Let them use flashcards with data they're learning. Always be confined that kinesthetic learners typically are precocious with their bodies. They’re conscious of their body in space - have nice balance. They’re coordinated. They learn sports and different body skills simply. How vital are Kinesthetic Learners in the society? Aside from the advantages of being a kinesthetic learner, they even have plethora of roles within the society that you simply may not grasp. Since kinesthetic learners are skillful, they have the importance and characteristics that are also distinctive and differ from other kinds of learners. At the end of this analysis, we'll be able to understand that a number of the most vital roles within the society were being aced by kinesthetic learners. As a kinesthetic learner, you learn best by doing. Where the opposite two learning styles emphasize intellectual skills, kinesthetic learning emphasizes the usage of hands and body — literally prying the motions. It’s likely that you would like to partake in action and engagement with the world around you. You furthermore might thrive in a very task-oriented setting. You also end up in a very little, however no lesser, minority, as solely 5-hitter of the population identifies with this class of learning style. Let’s take a glance at some careers for the kinesthetic learner: Athlete. This could not be the most accessible career; however it's regarding the most kinesthetically-intensive occupation we will think about. For individuals who learn best by doing, what’s a better way to create a living than to be evaluated by how well you do what you've got learned? In fact, people who have a practical future as a professional athlete most likely aren’t reading this text for career recommendation, but there isn’t a lot of direct affiliation between learning style and profession anywhere else in this list. Farmer. Modern farming involves an incredible amount of planning, business sense, and mechanical ability. Whether you're operating a commercial farm or a smaller, freelance operation, the sole work that gets done is that the work you are doing along with your own 2 hands. Whether you're operating large machineries or you’re out in the field tending to the crops, farming requires a lot of labor than any other job out there. The success of your crop depends on what you do to enhance the yield, and you can only learn and improve your technique by doing it for a couple of seasons. Carpenter. While carpentry needs the visual-learner skills to make plans to figure from, the task of turning those plans into a finished product is entirely in your hands. Only on an oversized industrial scale do we have machines where you'll be able to place in a piece of wood and get out a finished cut. In addition, the process of learning the carpentry trade isn't very classroomfriendly. Like different trades, everything from the introductory vocational school courses to the regular work of a master carpenter is entirely kinesthetically-based. Physical education teacher. If you've got a passion for education and wish to assist mold young minds, but the classroom isn’t your favorite place, then the gymnasium may provide a way friendlier atmosphere. If you're a kinesthetic learner, wouldn’t it make sense to show a program that's tailored to different kinesthetic learners? Physical therapist. Physical therapy involves manipulating the body to assist your patients to rehabilitate an injury or regain strength and movement. A productive physical therapist should be knowledgeable in kinesiology, which is the science of how the body moves. There’s a fair quantity of classroom work concerned in learning how the body works, however once you acquire your degree, your everyday work are going to be entirely active. Mechanic. We tend to mention the visual-learner skills a decent mechanic should have in order to properly diagnose a problem. On the opposite side of the coin, truly fixing the matter could be a hands-on task. Knowing the way to manipulate the components and systems is knowledge acquired solely by doing. And once you finish your education and begin operating in a garage, it’s the hands-on work that will fill your days. Coach. Almost like a physical education teacher, as a coach, you're accountable for teaching physical skills. Strategy and game-planning is needed within the higher levels of the athletic spectrum, but once you’re a teacher, you improve through experience. This is often one career where you'd seemingly start as a volunteer, but if you're keen about it and you're good at what you do, you can make a living with it. Machinist. Like other trades, a machinist is judged by the standard of their handicraft. In the case of a mechanic, you'll be working to make components within strict tolerances, which needs expertise and robust muscle memory. Like the rest of the jobs in this section, you definitely won’t be spending your days enchained to a desk looking at a monitor. If you had trouble managing 45 minutes in a seat throughout history class, this might be a pleasant change of direction for your career. Every learner has their own learning styles, thus it’s important that we've to know every and each one of them before deciding and speculate things regarding them. As a teacher, we should always be a fair judge, a comprehensive person and a good resource for our students. There are lots of things that we can create or produce for our students to learn. We only need to be artistic enough to be able to facilitate them in attaining their goals. Ending Conclusion: This study looked at how a kinesthetic Learner ought to learn. Two main results have come up during this study. First is that, kinesthetic Learners have a unique and great way of learning. As I’ve said within the hypothesis, they're physically active however may also be successful in academic education as long as guided properly. The second result and the main result's that, kinesthetic learners play tons of vital roles within the society. They are those who offer us the physicality of things that are solely can be imaginary. As per mentioned on the possible jobs for kinesthetic learners, being a farmer or a carpenter could be a challenging yet fulfilling career for kinesthetic learners. From this study we learned that there are some limitations which can be paid attention to in kinesthetic learners like everybody else. But with proper steering they would be able to follow. Proper strategies applied might be better and applicable to this type of learner is a necessity. Apart from that, a stimulating class with an excellent vision and mission for students is also essential. Finally, this research is a wrap-up of things that we need to understand concerning kinesthetic learners. With the supplemental benefits of physical movement such as exercise, kinesthetic learning appeals not solely to those to whom it comes naturally but also to anyone trying to find ways to enhance their intelligence.


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