In addition to determining your learner’s stage, determining your learner’s learning strengths will also help you structure effective activities.
Try a wide variety of activities from each group, and notice to which type of activities your learner responds best. You may also want to ask your learner what activities help them the most (discussion, activities with movement, writing, etc.) Then focus on activities that appeal to your learner’s strengths, but be sure to occasionally use the others as well.
If your learner is a visual learner:
-Always keep a pen and paper handy.
-Have the student visualize tasks or concepts.
-Give concrete examples.
-Write down words.
-Illustrate concepts with pictures when possible.
-Link what you write to what you do or say.
-Use only one handout or image at a time.
-Use visual consistency (use the same layout on the board and on paper.)
If your learner is an auditory learner:
-Elicit responses and discussion.
-Ask the learner to repeat things in his or her own words.
-Link what you say to what you write or do.
-Use short, clear, concrete sentences.
-Try to explain things in a variety of ways.
-Outline things, and emphasize what is important.
If your learner learns best by doing and physically interacting:
-Demonstrate things step by step.
-Move around and use hand gestures.
-Link what you do to what you say and write.
-Use total physical response (ask your learner to stand up, point, etc.).