Learning Characteristics

Teacher must determine the level at which students are functioning along with the standards they have or have not met. Teacher must figure out her students' individual learning characteristics such as students background knowledge and experience, Learning styles (i.e., visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile), academic strengths & weakness, how they respond to instruction and correction and so on. This is important because the teacher can develop a number of curricular and instructional decisions that can increase student’s performance. For example: my 7 yr old granddaughter first arrived to stay with us she could not accept any form of correction. And when she started school in the district the teacher identified her as a visual learner. Providing adding visuals allowed her to understand at a quicker pace.