A Homeschooler’s Quick and Painless Introduction To Learning Styles

I have a quick introduction to learning styles. And grab my other tips I have on my page homeschool learning styles.

Also, it’s not necessary to be concerned about educationalese so learning about homeschool learning styles should be painless.

It’s not necessary to understand all the jargon of learning styles like I tried to do.

Too, I want you to know why it’s important to understand this brief introduction to homeschool learning styles prior to choosing curriculum.

Additionally, I want you to understand these 3 things.

• you need to understand your child’s weaknesses and strengths.
• that you should tailor curriculum to meet your child’s learning personality and
• the more you educate yourself and your child the better you’re equipped to meet his needs.

Introduction to Learning Styles

First, it’s important to success as homeschool educators to understand our children and ourselves.

For example, as parents we know from the time our children are born, they have a definite personality.

In addition, we have pre-set ideas of how to raise them.

However, their personality and our ideas of how to homeschool can collide.

So, you need to understand your child’s weakness and strengths so you can best know how to homeschool him.

Better yet you want your child to excel in life as well.

What is a Learning Style

Although some scientific studies want to complicate the simple, here is my simple definition.

A learning style is the way a person prefers to learn. It goes beyond visual, kinesthetic, and auditory. It involves the way a person feels, senses, and thinks about certain topics. Also, it is a preferred way to interact with new information and it involves their personality. And to accept the differences in people and understand there is no reason to change a person because differences are a good thing.

The reason so many educators can be overwhelmed is that they try to make it science to understand how the brain works.

While it’s true that studying the brain is vital and it is science, it’s equally important to know that we will never know all that affects our brain, emotions, and personality.

Key to moving forward in teaching children is accepting their personality and understanding that they we should not try to change them.

We only see what children can do and how they interact and will never be able to know everything about the brain.

True, we want to nurture them and pass on what we know.

However, that is much different than changing something about somebody that we have no control over. If a child is born with black hair, then it’s black.

As absurd as it is, we don’t insist we have a child who is blonde headed even if he or she dyed their hair.

We’re born with certain traits which can’t be changed no matter how much we may hide them.

Why should we tailor our curriculum to meet our child’s needs?

Next, another point to know is that tailor curriculum to a child’s learning style is not coddling them.

Just as you have a preferred teaching style your child has a preferred way to learn.

Each of your children began to walk and talk at different times, not the exact same day.

So, when our curriculum is varied it means we accept and recognize differences.

And you recognize that just because one math program works for one child it doesn’t mean it will for the next child.

Again, this is because there are differences in our learning personality that need to be recognized.

When a child loses self-confidence or thinks he is weird because he doesn’t comprehend our teaching method then the curriculum is counterproductive.

We simply cannot expect each of our children to be the same and this is because they each have different learning personalities.

Why Your Child’s Learning Personality is Important

Because teaching styles are only part of choosing curriculum easily, I’ve included a link to my online course Identifying Your Homeschooled Childs Learning Personality.

YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to understand the way your child prefers to learn so that you can teach him in a way that he enjoys learning;
• How to pinpoint your child’s learning personality;
• A starting point in understanding (barring any special learning challenges or disabilities) and accepting your child’s preferred way of taking in information;
• Understanding when the learning personality emerges; and
• Teaching tips for each learning personality to stop the head-butting.

Moreover, look at the resources to help you understanding learning styles.

More Homeschool Learning Style Resources

• A Easy Introduction for Homeschool Parents to the List Of Learning Styles
• 8 Best Classical Style History Curriculum for a Classical Learning Style
• What Are The 5 Learning Styles to Know to Form a Powerful Homeschool Foundation
• How to Easily Match the Homeschool Classical Approach With Learning Style
• How to Fuse Personality and Learning Styles to Choose the BEST Homeschool Curriculum
• Mega List of Workbook Style Homeschool Curriculum For K to 12 Kids
• 3 Veteran’s Superb Tips to Understand Homeschool Learning Style Differences
• 6 Easy Ways to Identify the Charlotte Mason Homeschool Style
• How to Determine the Best Learning Style Approach for Your Child?
• What Are the Homeschool Top Main 5 Learning Styles
• Practical Tips for Learning Styles 
• Discovering Learning Styles
• How Understanding Homeschool Teaching Styles Makes You Successful
• 35+ Best Homeschool Curriculum By Learning Style (free printable)
• How Homeschool Learning Styles Helps You to Accept Each Childs Differences
• What Are the Top 5 Homeschool Styles