{"id":5960,"date":"2009-11-23T15:54:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2009-11-23T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:55:49","slug":"how-best-to-reach-visual-auditory-and-kinesthetic-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=5960","title":{"rendered":"How best to reach visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promised Joe that I would post a link to this&#8230;. In an article on the American Federation of Teachers Web site, Daniel Willingham, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Virginia, answers the question: &#8220;What does cognitive science tell us about the existence of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners and the best way to teach them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The short answer to this question: &#8220;What cognitive science has taught us is that <em>children do differ in their abilities with different modalities, but teaching the child in his [or her] best modality doesn\u2019t affect his [or her] educational achievement<\/em>. What does matter is whether the child is taught in the content\u2019s best modality.&#8221; [Italics in original.]<\/p>\n<p>For years, I&#8217;ve been teaching Sunday school teachers to be aware of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners, but on the basis of this article, I will be rethinking my training strategy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aft.org\/pubs-reports\/american_educator\/issues\/summer2005\/cogsci.htm\">You can read the whole article online<\/a>, and draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised Joe that I would post a link to this&#8230;. In an article on the American Federation of Teachers Web site, Daniel Willingham, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Virginia, answers the question: &#8220;What does cognitive science tell us about the existence of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners and the best way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}