Thank you @ NeuroWild
“It would have been very, very useful for me to figure out my learning style during school. I only started to get it in my final year.
I learn by talking about the content- I’m a verbal processor. I learn best of all when I can teach others the content. I explain things, I give examples, I reword, I use analogies. I talk until they get it. And along the way, my own brain really, really, really gets it. And I remember it.
In year 12 I wrote a bunch of songs with all the quotes I had to memorise for English (complete with page numbers, authors, poets, dates, all of it). I sang that 20 minute song on repeat for days and then I had all that info ready to go in the exam. And I still remembered it 10 years later.
And I draw. I write stories. I use symbols, characters, colours, dialogue, humour. Anything to make the boring work interesting.
If it isn’t interesting, I can’t learn it.
The trick is to figure out how to make it interesting.
The hard thing is being forced to sit through content delivery that is not compatible with your learning style.
Apparently it’s ADHD month, maybe?
My biggest thing for ADHD is exploring your learning style.
If your kid is an ADHDer help them figure it out.
Start with what they’re naturally drawn to, what lights them up, what they absolutely love. Also pay attention to what shuts their brain right off. Those ways will not work for them. And go from there.
This is part of my longer ADHD resource which is on TPT.
Which learning style do you have?
Em 🌻🌈✌️
AuDHD SLP”
