Multi-sensory learning
All learning environments are multi-sensory. Seeing, listening, touching things and moving are a natural part of learning. So do we need to focus on making learning multi-sensory? Multi-sensory teaching methods have been used since the earliest teaching books were written. By designing learning so that learners use more than one of their senses, we make it more interesting. The learner is more likely to remember after a multi-sensory experience.
Teachers working with dyslexic learners have found multi-sensory approaches particularly helpful. Some people learn better using one sense; e.g. Listening or watching, but although we may have one sense that we use mostly we generally benefit from using all of them to learn.
Things to support multi-sensory learning might include:
- digital camera,
- audio recorder,
- sticky notes and flip charts,
- coloured pens,
- mini whiteboards,
- real items from the subject area such as computer components in IT.
