Learning Style Approaches for Teaching English Language Learners, Grades K-5

Managing learning begins with understanding of our students and their learning styles, especially when moving forward the language skills of our ELLs. It’s about knowing them, and how they learn, and knowing enough to engage them in learning more. Whether they learn kinesthetically (using physical, hands-on), or inter-personally (social) for example, we’ll have the opportunity via learning style analysis to craft activities and performance tasks geared to garnering higher student achievement.  Participants in this course will learn how to use learning style information to develop, plan with, and use strategies that help ELLs.

Course Objectives:

• Apply several learning style theories to determine learning styles.
• Develop working knowledge of, and utility with, various behavior management theories as they align with multiple learning styles.
• Align behavioral theory to identified learning styles in order to successfully manage behavior and instruct students.
• Apply, through planning and job-embedded action, specific and measurable behavioral management goals and strategies as they align with identified learning styles.