[SENco-forum] Primary Review -

The Primary Review (specifically the report by Usha Goswami and Peter
Bryant) says (I paraphrase) that we should not be thinking in terms of
Visual, Auditory OR Kinaesthetic, but of Visual, Auditory AND Kinaesthetic
... for all children. I agree with Sharon's observation. What they're saying
is that the best learning occurs when all modalities are learning - there is
no single "learning style" for individual children.
Mary

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Before we all rush to throw VAK out of the window I have found via
'formative assessment' a huge disparity between auditory short term memory,
and the visual, tactile and kinaesthetic equivalents of children with SEN
ranging from 1-5 items for one child. This very definitely affects the way
this child would learn. It may not be his 'preferred' learning style, but it
does indicate how things need to be changed in order for him to learn.

I do not know if this disparity is the same for non-SEN children as I rarely
get my hands on any!

Hurray for the other bits on the list though -SpLD teachers always assess,
monitor and work this way and I cannot see why others do not, except that
perhaps they do not realise that it is easier all round on teacher and
pupil. Work smarter, not harder is what I tell my groups of children with
SpLD.

Sharon

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