Editing Kinesthetic learning (section)

== Kinesthetic learners in the classroom ==

Subjects can be taught to cater for kinesthetic learners. Through a strength-based and learner-centered approach, educators should engage kinesthetic students in activities that require movements because they learn by doing. Activities could include role-plays, drama, dance, races and competitions, field trips and projects.

Favre (2009) stated that instructional strategies should include movement in a game-like format. Favre suggested designing kinesthetic games. For example, "game boards such as Tic-Tac-Toe affixed to the classroom floor and hopscotch template painted on the playground tarmac or sidewalks around the school" (p.&nbsp;32). Favre also suggested that instructors can use "commercial games such as Twister, Jeopardy and Nerf basketball and create game cards that align with their lesson objectives" (pp.&nbsp;32–33).<ref name="auto2" />

Reese & Dunn (2007) in their research of college freshmen learning styles provided recommended that "to ensure success for kinesthetic learners, classes should provide active experiences for planning or carrying out objectives, such as visits, project, role playing, simulations and floor or wall games" (p.&nbsp;108).<ref name="auto2" />

Dena Lister highlights the improvements that were found in classroom performance of sixth-grade learning-support students. Lister writes, "The LSS students also produced significantly the first Learning-Style treatment, suggesting that this particular Learning-Style instructional approach, rather than Traditional teaching, was a more effective instructional strategy for these students."<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lister|first1= Dena O. |title=Effects of Traditional Versus Tactual and Kinesthetic Learning-Style Responsive Instructional Strategies on Bermudian Learning-Support Sixth-Grade Students' Social Studies Achievement and Attitude-Test Scores|journal= Research for Educational Reform|volume= 10|issue= 2|date= June 2005|pages= 24–40}}</ref>

AJ Richards points out it can be very helpful for physics instructors to develop and employ pedagogical techniques that help students to visualize and to reason productively about these concepts. A particularly effective strategy uses kinesthetic learning activities.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1119/1.5084926|title=Teaching Mechanics Using Kinesthetic Learning Activities|journal=The Physics Teacher|volume=57|issue=1|pages=35–38|year=2019|last1=Richards|first1=AJ|bibcode=2019PhTea..57...35R|s2cid=125222905 }}</ref>