MOTIVATING STRATEGIES FOR DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES

1-    Tension and challenge through games. Teachers can design an activity that will let them check the students’ progress and acquired knowledge by playing a game. Thus, students will have the chance to have a great time without noticing they are being assessed. This may create a competitive environment, so that it is important for teachers to bear in mind that they will have to reinforce the fact that nobody will win but everybody can learn and revise concepts.

2-    Active learning. Let them explore through the Internet or other use other technologies in order to activate schemata about what they are about to learn in depth. The teacher can create an interactive interface where he/she can create a discussion about the ideas that will be taught later on. The students will feel engaged in the process of learning.

3-    Praise. Let students know when they are doing well, so that the class will realise and will try to emulate this behaviour and learn from each other.

4-   Use visuals, open-ended cues, information gap activities that will cater for different learning strategies. Create individual and cooperative tasks that will help both students that are more introvert/extrovert to have a chance to do well.