Class 3:Younger & Older Grades

“They won’t care about how much you

know,

Until they know how much you

care.”

The kids don’t CARE!

Everybody

1.Understanding1.Language2.Rules/Expectations

2.Spiritual Needs:

Salvation3.Physical

1.Rest/Sleep2.Sustenance: food/drink3.Environment

Learning Gates

Audio

Visual

Kinesthetic

Audio Test

Instructions:

Listen carefully to and memorize the 10 words presented, but do

not write anything down until the signal is given.

Visual Test 1

Computer

Duck

Eyeglasse

s

Piano

Rainbow

Shoes

Fork

Airplane

Snowman

Clock

Visual Test 2

Instructions:

Memorize and pass each object on the next person. Please do not hold onto the objects for too long,

but keep the line moving.

Kinesthetic Test

1.

2.

3.

4.

Imaginative

Analytical

Common Sense

DynamicTHIN

K

Learning Styles

Imaginative learners ask…“Why do I need to know this?”

Analytical learners ask…“What do I need to know?”

Common Sense learners ask…“How does this work?”

Dynamic learners ask…“What can this become?”

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?

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Learning Cycle

Imaginative

Analytical

CommonSense

Dynamic

Relates Thinks

TestsDoes

content

Love Languages

Words of Affirmation

I’m proudof you!

I love you

so much.

Keep up the good

work.

Good job!

Thank you!

You’re kind!

Love Languages

Quality Time

Love Languages

Physical Touch

Love Languages

Acts of Service

Love Languages

Gifts

Younger (pre-K – 2nd)

Guidance/Boundaries

Repetition

Action

Small Words Quick Pace

Brief

Stories

Visuals, Visuals, Visuals!

Volunteers

Older (3rd – 6th)

Accepted/Affirmed

Speak/Share

Trust

Motivation Object Lessons/Visuals

PersonalStories

PeerInteractio

n

“Realness”

Competition

Challenge

Knowing what your preferred learning-gate, learning style, and love language is…

1. Write down the ones out of those categories that are most difficult for you

2. Write down one way on how you can strengthen one of those weaker traits in your teaching