Teaching Physical Learners
Physical learners will learn best if you help them DO IT! Here are some of our favorite tips and strategies.
- Allow for movement throughout the class schedule
- Engage students by asking them to point or use body language
- Move around while teaching so students will track your movement
- Hide elements of the story and have a scavenger hunt
- Use visuals and manipulatives that students can touch and interact with
- Reinforce a lesson with drama
- Explain how the lesson can be applied to an action in daily living
- Dance, wave ribbons, play instruments
- Ask students to respond with a specific action when they hear a key word in your lesson
- Build models individually or as a group
- Use clay, playdough or crafts
- Put together puzzles to reveal part of the lesson
- Perform experiments
- Locate places on a globe
- Leave your classroom and teach the lesson from different locations in your church
- Add hand motions or sign language
- Turn a written activity into a game: for example, if you’re tracking Paul’s missionary journey, write locations on strips of paper and place them on the floor around the room and walk the kids through the journey
- Use a sandbox with manipulatives for students to reenact the lesson
- Build models using LEGOs
- Offer alternate seating
- Write in the air
- Use catch-ball drills to review facts
- Take a “walk and talk” about concepts in the lesson
- If a student has worked outside of the classroom for a portion of the time, encourage the student to share with the class what they have learned
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