Tell me I’ll forget show me and I may remember involve me and I’ll understand (Confucius)

1. Kinesthetic
Learning in kids’
classrooms

2. My teaching experience
•Students have different learning styles
•Students get bored soon when learning by
seeing and listening
•They love to do hands-on activities
•Majority of the students are kinaesthetic
learners

3. Area Of Study
Engaging Kinaesthetic learners in
classrooms

4. Questions:
What are the strategies of
utilizing Kinaesthetic movement
with in classroom?
What are some creative ways
that kinaesthetic movement might
be incorporated into class
curriculum?
How much is it effective for
learning ,to have pocket activities
in classroom

5. Tell me I’ll forget show me
and I may remember
involve me and I’ll understand
Confucius
Quotes
If a child can’t learn the way we teach
maybe should teach the way they learn
Ignacio Estrada

6. Background to the Topic
Learning Style:
A range of instructional strategies
through which students pursue the
act of learning
Most popular learning styles are:
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic
VAK
Model

7. Learning styles reflect:
• How students learn
• What students pay
attention to
• How students remember

8. Introduction
• Kinaesthetic learning
• Kinaesthetic is a method of
learning based on: moving, touching
or practicing.

9. Why to move:
• 1. Our bodies are designed to move.
• 2. Some people think best when they are
moving.
• 3. To engage diverse types of learners fully
– kinaesthetic learners or sleepy ones!
• 4. To deepen understanding.
• 5. To experience a subject from a new
perspective, using kinaesthetic intelligence.
• 6. To develop creativity.
• 7. To foster community.
• 8. To invigorate the body – exercise for
health.
• 9. To have fun!

10. Characteristics of
Kinaesthetic learners
1.The student does not
like to be sitting still and
needs to move.

11. 2. Kinaesthetic learners
hold up their hands even
though they do not
know the answer.
3. Gestures when
they are talking.

12. 5. Kinaesthetic people love doing
things with their own hands.

13. 7. Doodling and tracing
pictures or words often
8.Tapping and Shaking
their legs during work
time

14. Teaching Strategies for
Kinaesthetic Learners
• First: give them the instructions and then
the material so they can do it.
•
Second: let the students do everything
with their hands and they will remember it.
•
Third: let them use handout and colour
material.

15. Activities for Kinaesthetic
learners
• Experiments
• Field trips
• Role-playing
• Projects
• Games
• EPL/ Montessori exercises
• Pocket activities in classroom

16. Pocket activities
• Scribbling
• Tracing
• drawing
• Letter number or word formation with bean/macoroni
• Sand tray
• Play dough
• Painting
• Collage work
• Connecting dots
• Origami
• W. sheets
• Modelling clay
• Puzzles
• Abacus,

17. Methodology
• Meeting with the staff
• Making them plan and implement pocket
activities in their class
• Collecting the data and analysing the
findings
• Evaluating the effectiveness of these
activities

18. Observation tool format
low Low
medium
medium Low high high
Involvement
and attention in
activities
comprehension
Physical
response
Attitude and
motivation