Teachers are incorporating different teaching style to accommodate every student’s learning styles

Education is a key part of a person’s life. Every teacher wants their student to succeed in every class within their educational career. But for every student to succeed, teachers and their teaching methods are the key element in their success. In my opinion, Highland Park High School’s teachers do a tremendous job accommodating to every single students learning styles with a teacher’s different teaching methods. For example, the three main learning styles of students are visual, auditory and tactile.

The first learning style of a student is visual learning. A student who is a visual learner is someone who understands the information being taught with pictures, diagrams or displays. They also tend to say to their teacher, “Will you show me how to do that?” or “Can you show me a picture of that event in history?”. Personally, I am a visual learner and many of my teachers at Highland Park have accommodated to my learning style by demonstrating a math problem on the board, or using a prezi in order to connect a timeline or displaying a picture of a plant cell.  

Another main learning style is auditory learning. Auditory learning is where a student will learn and absorb the information if they hear their teacher or a fellow classmate talking about that school subject. These students do best when a teacher will have a lecture in their class or using sounds to learn a subject. For example, these students do best when a teacher asks them questions about a lecture that their teacher just gave, or they listen to instructions on how a math problem is done and then perform that math problem.  

The last main learning style is a tactical learning student. A student who is a tactical learner is someone who would best like to have a physical learning experience, such as holding, touching, or feeling something that pertains to the subject being taught. These students tend to do well in a science class if their teacher is showing them a model of a cell or their geometry teacher is showing them different 3-D shape models. My freshman year, my science teacher used a significant amount of tactical learning by letting students touch fake skeletons of animals to learn about their skeletal systems or using hand motions to teach the cell cycle. This use of tactical teaching was a large aid to many of the students in my class to better understand the class.

Overall, within Highland Park high school, many of my teachers have used one or all of these teaching methods in order to satisfy the learning style needs of all students. And I think these teachers accommodating to all students within our school has had a abundant impact on the success of our students and our school.