To move from traditional way of teaching, Sharjah Indian schools have to innovate new ways of learning. These programs should have the ability to engage students and enhance their contribution. 40% of teachers teaching in the schools in Sharjah, often complain about students snoring during the lecture. This is because they do not enjoy or they enjoy learning in a different way. This forces us to first explore different types of classroom learners.

What are the 5 different types of learners?

  1. Visual learners: These are the students who digest the information more from images, graphs, drawings, videos, and surroundings. In short, they have impeccable observational powers. They find text boring and often find difficulty in learning theory.

Moreover, such students have high chances of becoming architectures, engineers, project managers, or creative designers in the future, as witnessed by Sharjah Indian School.

  1. Auditory learners: It includes the children who find a connection with audios or sounds. Their brain gets 2 times active when they learn from sounds, recordings, rhymes, rhythms etc. With strong listening powers, they can easily understand any complex topics compared to text learners. This fact is commonly noticed in majority of students studying in the schools in Sharjah.
  2. Kinesthetic learners: Also called physical learners, who believe in practical implementation to hold the nerve of a subject. Like a tennis player learns after devoting 4-5 hours on the Tennis court. These people learn when they touch, feel, or hold the material in their hands.
  3. Linguistic learners: These are the ones who rely on books, novels, writing, reading the words from a resource. Their mind efficiently understands words and sentences to digest information. We interviewed some students of Aspam Sharjah Indian School in 2019. We found that 40% love penning down their thoughts and want to become writers.
  4. Solitary learner: They prefer learning alone without any involvement of second person and believe in self-study. Why? Because they yearn for peaceful environment. Calm places give a boost to learning and concentration abilities.

How to Teach different types of learners?

For Visual Learner:

● Maps, images, flow charts, pie charts, slides or PPT can effectively enhance learning.

● Advise use of colorful highlighters to attract attention to important concepts. Schools in Sharjah considers the activity as highly favorable to grab the attention.

● Visualize math formulas and scientific studies. Create a live classroom situation to learn new concepts. For example, to explain Cos2θ + Sin2θ= 1, you can take two students and ask them to perform the roles of cos & sin. This is just a suggestion, you can be more creative.

● Allow them to draw diagrams on the chalkboard.

For Audio Lovers:

● One tip that Sharjah Indian school follows is asking students to express verbally. Like picking up an interesting topic about a subject and then inviting to engage.

● Question them once the chapter is over. Allow them to freely express themselves.

● Record your lectures and forward them to students. Ask them to reconsider in case they missed anything.

● Practice loud reading that directly impacts their ears. Most schools in Sharjah use this trick to prevent students from sleeping.

Kinesthetic or Tactile

● First, make a list of things that need to be learned.

● Narrate stories or scientific concepts in a way that creates images in the child’s mind. So that he/she can personalize with the theory and relate better.

● Explain complex concepts by connecting them with real-life examples. Incorporate daily life examples in the teaching method.

● Perform actions and make expressions while reciting poems or stories or social events. Make use of fingers, neck, eyes and mouth to build interest.

Sharjah Indian school highly focuses on training its faculty for all the points highlighted above.

For Linguistic & Solitary learner

As they are shy, reach out to them by either connecting personally or taking their names in between the class. Ask questions- Are you understanding? What do you feel about this issue? How do you solve this problem?

● Solve their queries by giving individual attention.

● Record their response to classroom teachings and evaluate their progress. Change strategies accordingly.