Learning Characteristics

Before a teacher begins instruction of students, a teacher should assess his students to determine their current grade level (for example their reading level) and the the kind of learner his students are (visual, auditory, tactile). We use an accelerated reading program at our high school, one of the few high schools in the state to do so. Most of my ninth grade students are on a 5-6 grade reading level and are visual and tactile learners. In order to take advantage of the situation, I mainly use graphic organizers and foldables for their assignments and keep lecture to a minimum. Some assignments can be converted to a tactile format easily, such as providing cutouts of sentences with certain types of errors and have the students categorize the sentences according to those errors by physically placing them under categories with their hands instead of just writing or saying "this is the error."