[auditory learning styles and education]

I've been working with a small group of teachers (key stage 3) to design lesson plans that include various types of learners and learning styles. The idea of having students tell stories (i.e. re-tell what they've learnt) seems to play a key role in deep learning. Or, in Dawn Hogue's words, this kind of engagement can push students' learning "up the taxonomy."

Judie Haynes at Everything ESL says auditory learners find these tactics useful:

• interviewing
• debating
• participating on a panel
• giving oral reports
• participating in oral discussions of written material

Then I see over on Cool Cat Teacher Blog a video of students *re-telling* what they've learnt in history class. As Cool Cat Teach. says, if students can't tell a story of what they've learnt, maybe they didn't understand the lesson.

NB look at Lynn Schultz's "new" version of Bloom's taxonomy: