Facilitating Student Learning Teaching Versus Presenting www economicsnetwork

Facilitating Student Learning Teaching Versus Presenting www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

Presenting vs. Teaching • Presenting: – Informed audience – Aim is to relay information • Teaching: – Uninformed audience – Aim is to develop understanding www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

How do we learn? • Everybody is different. • How do we learn? – Sight – Smell – Sound – Taste – Touch www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

The VAK Model • When teaching try to cater for each of the following: – Visual learners: learn by seeing – Auditory learners: learn by hearing – Kinaesthetic learners: learn by doing Passive Visual Interactive Auditory www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk Kinaesthetic

Visual Learners • Visual learners prefer: – Slides – Whiteboards – Diagrams – Copying – Colours – Demonstrations www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

Visual Learners • Visual learners prefer: a – Slides – Whiteboards – Diagrams – Copying – Colours – Demonstrations www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

Auditory Learners • Auditory learners prefer: f – Listening to explanations – Answering questions – Explaining concepts to other people www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

Kinaesthetic Learners • Kinaesthetic learners prefer: f – Classroom games – Working through problems themselves – Highlighting key points www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

Activity • In groups, design a lesson on diminishing marginal product that would particularly appeal to one type of learner. www. economicsnetwork. ac. uk

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