Hands On Activities

Learning within the classroom needs to be based off all the students and not just the majority. If 75% of the classroom does better by learning visually, what about the other 25% that learn better aurally? Just because the majority of the classroom does better learning visually, doesn't mean that the teacher should take that and teach everything based off of powerpoint slides, hands on activities etc. I think that the teacher, in this case should present both types of learning abilities and allow the students to adapt to the opposite learning style and adjust it from there.

When I was in elementary school throughout middle school, I also retained more information if the teacher used more hands on, group work activities. For this, I was able to take what I learned from the tangible side of it, relate it to something to a day to day basis and retain that specific information. Unfortunately, I was not able to read a passage in an article and be able to tell you what it was about two weeks down the road. Once the test/quiz on that specific information was over, the facts went in one ear and out the other.

Teachers should try and incorporate hands on activities within the classroom as it shows that the students do better on follow ups such as quiz, tests, projects etc.