May. 13, 2008
Left Brain/Right Brain Learners...more notes from AHEA
Left and Right Brained Learners…Huh?
Left Hemisphere Learners Right Hemisphere Learners
Thinking Doing
Language/Words Pictures/Story
Hears with the ears Hears with the eyes
Short-term memory Long-term memory
Bit by bit Whole concept
Black and white Color
Closure Challenge of several
Repetition Emotion
Scheduled Options
Logical Quantum Leaps
Sequential Random
Auditory Visual
I was very sad to realize that my son is right in the middle of these two very different learning styles…sigh
I feel I have so much more to do on this topic. I just didn’t learn much about it in the 1-hour presentation. I want to buy the book Unicorns are Real by Barbara Meister Vitale.
However, this is what I DID get from the seminar with Carol Krahn…
A few tidbits and tips about it all…
-Learning difficulties = Different mode of thought.
-All ADD people are right-brained learners! However, not all right brained learners have ADD.
-If struggling with a concept, try teaching the concept in the opposite hemisphere.
-Recognizing how you learn is NOT an excuse to fail, but an acknowledgement that you may have to work harder to learn certain things.
-Right-brained learners think in pictures and can see things 3 dimensionally and learn best through visualization.
Tips for teaching right brained learners:
-Use maps, graphs, charts, timelines, small scale models, re-enactment’s, dramatizations, experiments, stories, lots of hands on teaching and less textbooks.
Then allow them time to process all the info they’ve been given.
-If they’re not visualizing, they’re not thinking, therefore they’re also not learning!!
Although visualizing will come easily for them they still need to learn this skill, this is their great strength!
-Repetition is useless for right brained learners!
-Verbal instructions are hard for them to follow
They often need to see the whole picture before attempting something new.
Details hold them back!
Dyslexia is the result of teaching too early, before they’re ready. (this is just one viewpoint…I have no opinion on this yet)
When using flashcards hold it high sot hey are looking up, when the eyes are looking up, this triggers the brain to visualize.
They thrive on doing several things at once and in no particular order!
When praising them, praise their efforts/character, NOT the job they did, as this creates pressure to perform.
Concrete, direct experiences create pictures for their mind to store, so they can visualize the info.
Example for teaching globe stuff…use masking tape and turn his body into a globe teaching him where the prime meridian, equator, etc are…even being creative and putting a white crown on his head for Antarctica…
A few authors mentioned were Roger Sperry and Arthur Bornstein, I’m not sure if the last author is spelled correctly! lol
And those are my notes from the AHEA conference on right/left brained learners!!
Left Hemisphere Learners Right Hemisphere Learners
Thinking Doing
Language/Words Pictures/Story
Hears with the ears Hears with the eyes
Short-term memory Long-term memory
Bit by bit Whole concept
Black and white Color
Closure Challenge of several
Repetition Emotion
Scheduled Options
Logical Quantum Leaps
Sequential Random
Auditory Visual
I was very sad to realize that my son is right in the middle of these two very different learning styles…sigh
I feel I have so much more to do on this topic. I just didn’t learn much about it in the 1-hour presentation. I want to buy the book Unicorns are Real by Barbara Meister Vitale.
However, this is what I DID get from the seminar with Carol Krahn…
A few tidbits and tips about it all…
-Learning difficulties = Different mode of thought.
-All ADD people are right-brained learners! However, not all right brained learners have ADD.
-If struggling with a concept, try teaching the concept in the opposite hemisphere.
-Recognizing how you learn is NOT an excuse to fail, but an acknowledgement that you may have to work harder to learn certain things.
-Right-brained learners think in pictures and can see things 3 dimensionally and learn best through visualization.
Tips for teaching right brained learners:
-Use maps, graphs, charts, timelines, small scale models, re-enactment’s, dramatizations, experiments, stories, lots of hands on teaching and less textbooks.
Then allow them time to process all the info they’ve been given.
-If they’re not visualizing, they’re not thinking, therefore they’re also not learning!!
Although visualizing will come easily for them they still need to learn this skill, this is their great strength!
-Repetition is useless for right brained learners!
-Verbal instructions are hard for them to follow
They often need to see the whole picture before attempting something new.
Details hold them back!
Dyslexia is the result of teaching too early, before they’re ready. (this is just one viewpoint…I have no opinion on this yet)
When using flashcards hold it high sot hey are looking up, when the eyes are looking up, this triggers the brain to visualize.
They thrive on doing several things at once and in no particular order!
When praising them, praise their efforts/character, NOT the job they did, as this creates pressure to perform.
Concrete, direct experiences create pictures for their mind to store, so they can visualize the info.
Example for teaching globe stuff…use masking tape and turn his body into a globe teaching him where the prime meridian, equator, etc are…even being creative and putting a white crown on his head for Antarctica…
A few authors mentioned were Roger Sperry and Arthur Bornstein, I’m not sure if the last author is spelled correctly! lol
And those are my notes from the AHEA conference on right/left brained learners!!
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May. 18, 2008 - from paige
Posted by Anonymous i posted something on my blog for you!
i already read your post on anger... (a lot of the same conclusions i've come to on that subject) & am coming back tomorrow to read the right brain left brain thing (after the il's leave).
p
i already read your post on anger... (a lot of the same conclusions i've come to on that subject) & am coming back tomorrow to read the right brain left brain thing (after the il's leave).
p