Presentation on Multisensory Learning

1. MULTISENSORY TEACHING :
LEARNING
STRATEGIC LANGUAGES
IN A INNOVATIVE WAY

2. AIM
• To understand the nuances of multisensory
teaching and its usage in learning strategic languages.

3. PREVIEW
• Part I - Multi-sensory Teaching-Meaning and Importance.
• Part II - Learning styles and Quick Facts.
• Part III - Rationale for the Use of Multi-Sensory Teaching.
• Part IV - The Different Teaching and Learning Techniques.
• Part V - Beneficiaries from Multi-Sensory Learning.
• Part VI - Tips for Creating a Multi-Sensory Classroom.

4. MULTI-SENSORY TEACHING :
MEANING & IMPORTANCE
• Multisensory teaching techniques and strategies stimulate learning
by engaging students on multiple levels.
• They encourage students to use some or all their senses to:-
– Gather information about a task.
– Link information to ideas they already know and understand.
– Perceive the logic involved in solving problems.
– Learn problem solving tasks.
– Tap into nonverbal reasoning skills.
– Understand relationships between concepts.
– Store information and store it for later recall.

5. LEARNING STYLES AND QUICK FACTS ABOUT
MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING
• Learning Styles. Researchers suggest that many students have an
area of sensory learning strength, called a learning style.
– When students are taught using techniques consistent with their
learning styles, they learn more easily & faster.
– Can retain and apply concepts more readily to future learning.
– Most students, with a difficulty or not, enjoy the variety that
multisensory techniques can offer.

6. QUICK FACTS
• Integrates visual, auditory, tactile (touch) and kinesthetic (movement)
learning elements.
• Different teaching methods activate different parts of the brain.
• Helps learners discover their learning style and the techniques best
for them.
• Effective for all learners but particularly effective for dyslexic
students.
• Can be used in any subject from reading to math to science and
drama.
• Allows for more individualized lesson planning.
• Enabled more and more by assistive technology see, hear, touch and
move your way to understanding.

7. RATIONALE FOR THE USE OF MULTI-
SENSORY TEACHING
• Students exhibit weaknesses in underlying language skills involving
speech sound (phonological) and print (orthographic) processing.
• Most students with dyslexia have weak phonemic awareness,
meaning they are unaware of the role sounds play in words.
• Because of their trouble establishing associations between sounds
and symbols, they have trouble learning to recognise words
automatically (“by sight”) or fast enough to allow comprehension.
• Dyslexic children and teens need specialised instruction to master
the alphabetic code and to form those memories.
• This multi-sensory part remains one of the most reliable method for a
dyslexic mind to learn to spell, read and write because it fully engages
the each part of the brain.
• Another positive about this method is that it also works for teaching
mathematics as well.

8. DIFFERENT TEACHING & LEARNING
TECHNIQUES
• Visual Teaching: Students to learn by seeing.
• Auditory Teaching: Students to learn by listening.
• Tactile Teaching: Students to learn by touching.
• Kinesthetic Teaching: Students to learn while moving.
• Sequential Teaching: Students to learn material in a specific order or s
eries of steps.
• Simultaneous Teaching: Students to learn “how the information is
interrelated.

9. DIFFERENT TEACHING & LEARNING TECHNIQUES
• Reflective/Logical Teaching: Students solve problems and ponder
complex issues.
• Verbal Teaching: Students learn info by talking about it.
• Interactive Teaching: Students learn info in the company of others .
• Direct Experience Teaching: Students learn through experience.
• Indirect Experience Teaching: Students learn from the experiences o
f others.
• RhythmicTeaching: Students see patterns or pair melodies
and rhythm.

10. • Kids can benefit from multi-sensory lessons, If a student learns
something using more than one sense, the information is more
likely to stay with him.
• People with learning disabilities have trouble with language skills
involving speech sound (phonological) and print (orthographic)
processing and in building pathways that connect speech with
print.
• People with sensory integration challenges sense information
normally but have difficulty perceiving and processing that
information because it is analyzed in their brains in a different way.
• Multi-sensory learning can be particularly helpful for kids with
learning and attention issues.
BENEFICIARIES FROM MULTI-SENSORY LEARNING

11. • Writing homework assignments on the board.
• Use different colors to signify different parts of the classroom.
• Use music in the classroom.
• Apply aromatherapy to the classroom.
• Start with a picture or object.
• Make stories come to life.
• Use different coloured paper.
• Encourage discussion.
• Use different types of media to present lessons.
• Create games to review material.
TIPS FOR CREATING A MULTISENSORY CLASS
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