Here we have the last profile, a set of some Multiple Intelligences more oriented towards the body, movement and activity, where the focus is on action and experimentation. We finish with the kinesthetic child the last of the three profiles (5% of the population).
These are those who need to be personally and physically involved in learning, preferably through movement, practicing and practicing. They need to face new challenges in their physical and manual skills. They learn more slowly but much more deeply. They move and gesture freely and physically express their emotions. When they think, they look down and to the sides. Their biggest weakness is that they are not interested in things they cannot practice.
These children process information by associating it with their sensations and movements, to his body, thus using the bodily/kinesthetic representation system. Learning using the kinesthetic system is slow, much slower than with either of the other two systems, visual and auditory. Kinesthetic learning is also deep. They can learn a list of words and forget them the next day, but when you learn to ride a bike, you never forget it. Once we know something with our body, we've learned it with the muscle memoryIt's very difficult for us to forget. Children who prefer to use the kinesthetic system therefore need more time than others. We say they are “slow”. This slowness has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence, but with its different way of learningThe kinesthetic child needs to do, move, and experience with his whole body. When they learn, they often walk or rock to satisfy that need for movement. They look for any excuse to get up and move.
The kinesthetic child stands out in running, dancing, singing, recognizing sounds, melodies, and rhythms. He is interested in theater, crafts, and using tools. He enjoys moving, playing, and speaking loudly, as well as body language. He sings, hums, plays instruments, and listens to music.
What we can see behaviorally in a kinesthetic child is… He responds to physical displays of affection, likes to touch everything, and moves and gestures a lot. He expresses his emotions through movement. Learn what he touches and what he does, moving, processing information through bodily sensations. He needs to be personally involved.
He likes stories and action adventures, he moves when learning, he is not a great reader. His Memory remembers what he did or the general impression it made on him, but not the details. He stores information through the ““muscle memory”. His imagination It is structured with few and little detailed images, always in movement. During the periods of inactivity, moves. In terms of communication He's a child who gestures when he speaks. He doesn't listen well. He leans very close to his interlocutor and also gets bored quickly when explanations are auditory or visual and don't engage him in some way.
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