Student Sensory Styles

In the previous module, you had an opportunity to consider your own sensory preferences.  You learned that you use all of your senses to learn and remember new information. You now will turn your attention to your students and explore their sensory preferences.  You will examine the ways in which you can appeal to those sensory modalities in your teaching and meet their sensory needs in the lessons you create.

At the completion of this Module, you will be able to:

• Generalize this course content to reflect how the multicultural and diverse populations within classrooms have their needs met via the application of the skills, strategies, and knowledge of this course.
• Reflect on and continuously evaluate personal practice, adjust accordingly, and actively seek out opportunities to grow professionally using the knowledge and skills of this course.
• Work collaboratively to share knowledge, skills, and experiences, refine understanding of content, give and receive feedback, and improve expertise.
• Identify and explain the four senses in the KTAV model (kinesthetic, tactual, auditory, and visual) and how to assess them in students.
• Identify and explain classroom instructional approaches based on meeting students’ needs to acquire and process classroom content and skills in a multisensory way.
• Analyze multisensory approaches implemented in his or her own classroom.
• Use the elements of compelling whys and effective multisensory teaching as criteria to design, present, and critique a classroom lesson.