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Child Learning Styles
By Mary Joyce, Sat Dec 10th
/p> Many homeschool parents ultimately end up designing their own homeschool curriculum for their child. Tailoring the learningprocess to match the child's learning style. For those who haveworked through this process somewhere along the way came to the realization that when it comes to homeschooling one size definitely does not fit all. But that’s ok! After all in theend, probably the greatest single benefit to homeschooling is the fact that you can tailor the homeschool education to fit the motivational profile of your child. The key concept in the lastsentence is the motivational profile. What motivates your childto learn?
What is the child's learning style? This is a keyconcept that you must come to understand in order to insure maximum homeschooling results. An important aspect to understand about learning styles of thechildren is that ultimately the learning style of your child isprobably more of an eclectic mix of different styles rather thanone that you could classify neatly and put in a box. Learning isgreatly influenced by motivation. And what motivates can bedirectly influenced as the mood for the day, and the fatiguelevel or lack thereof. There are several identifiable types of child learning styles asidentified educational scholars. It is out of the scope of thisarticle to go into each of these categories. However, it isimportant that you have at least a high level understanding ofthese different types of learning styles. Knowing of these andhaving a decent understanding of them will aid greatly in yourcurriculum decisions as you first begin to understand what typeof learner your child is.
A bit of research on the internet will bring you back much information on the different types of child learning styles andhow to recognize and tailor a program that best fits the style.The idea is to work to determine how you child learns then finetune your curriculum to make use of that learning style.Accomplishing this will create an motivation filled environment.And motivation to learn set sails in the right direction. About the author:Mary Joyce is a former educator, successful homeschool parent,and has written many articles on teaching yourchild at home for the Homeschool-Curriculum-4u website.Please visit (http://www.homeschool-curriculum-4u.com) for more of Mary's articles, tips,and how-to's helping you teach your child at home.
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