Child Education
Children and the Joy of Education
Children learn with sights, sounds and actions. Adults sometimes are amazed at the patience of children when they are doing something new, and are slowly succeeding in it. Children sometimes simply gaze in to thin air, or may be a hanging toy, or at somebody’s picture, without understanding anything. Or maybe that’s our perception. We think that infants do not understand what they behold in an adult’s world. We may be very wrong.
The learning process of a child begins with its birth. It learns to distinguish family from strangers, mother from the rest of the world. The education of a child should ideally be in the lap of nature, as William Wordsworth recalled in many of his nature poems. However, in days like these, when open space is a luxury many can’t afford, learning styles for children are getting more technological and different.
Visual Learning – Some children are visual learners. They learn fast if you make the text attractive and the things from which it is learning pleasing to the eyes. The trick to make a visual learning child get interested in its work is to get smart flashcards for him, on internet or manual. These children are usually introverted and read quietly, without letting anybody understand that he is busy with a book.
Auditory Learning – Auditory or related to sound requires the concentrated use of sharp hearing abilities. Some children have a knack for music from early infancy. They sleep early to lullabies, stop crying when sung to in a melodious tone, remember the dialogues of commercials or movies as they grow up and can repeat them almost perfectly. Such children require a different style of education. They are usually talkative and prefer to listen to what they have to study. These children need to hear their text more and more, and if possible in different tones, to make the whole thing interesting.
Kinesthetic Learning – Children with kinesthetic learning abilities prefer to DIY style, or do-it-yourself. They try to understand what goes into the making of a concept, or a text’s chapter, and try to recreate it by themselves. When it is about theoretical subjects like language or literature, they write in different patterns to get it right. In case of subjects like social history or geography, including the sciences, kinesthetic learning children are more encouraged if taken for a trip to the area of the event or shown the animals or plants they are learning about.
Learning should be kept as something as children would enjoy. The learning styles of children differ from one to another, and this should be strictly kept in mind when teaching them. Else, it would all be a waste – the time, the effort, the years going behind, and of course, the money.
