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Comment by Susan G. Salvo on July 29, 2010 at 10:21am

Thanks for sharing this Jan. I am a firm believer in multi-sensory approach in the classroom.

I also liked how the author brought in the "enjoyment" factor into the educational experience.

While I hire teachers based on their academics and experience, if there are two equal candidates, the trump card is often their personality. Can they connect with students…

But whatever the teaching style, the key to learning is repetition. They need to hear it, see it, and do it often.

Comment by Kevin Pierce on July 29, 2010 at 10:17am

Jan,
You make a very good point here and one that I think needs to be mentioned. In my opinion, ultimately, the methodology used in the classroom by the instructor makes the difference in whether or not a student is able to retain information. This is not the only thing, of course due to students initial learning capacity, but relevent assessments, activities and competencies all given in an interactive learning environment is what I think is best.

As far as massage therapy students only being able to learn in a certian way, I think it comes down to the subject matter and desired outcomes. If the desired outcome is a knowledge base such as anatomy and physiology, the students may appreciate the hands on applications, but they don't necessarily learn it easier or better than they would with other more verbal or visual styles. But, when it comes to hands-on, performance based competencies, I feel that most every student will learn the neseecary things and retain the information better for the simple fact that it is a physical action they are learning. Kinesthetic learning is a huge pat of massage therapy education becasue a huge part of massage therapy is kinesthetic. The most effective way to teach kinesthetic action is therough kinesthetic methods.

This does not address whether or not there is a predisposition of people in the massage therapy industry to retain kinesthetic information easier than others. That may be very difficult to prove.

Just my two cents.

Thanks, KP

Comment by Alexei Levine on July 29, 2010 at 10:16am

I believe these researchers are substantially correct when the subject matter being taught is high level theory. (In the experiment cited, the subject students were being taught the structure of complex molecules). However, much of what's taught in massage school is substantially simpler, and of course in the case of massage techniques and palpation, it's motor skills.

Comment by Jan Schwartz on July 29, 2010 at 10:02am

What do people think about this? I often wonder about the validity of the reason/excuse that massage therapists can't learn well in a certain way because they are mostly kinesthetic learners.

http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/

Comment by Krista Witthoeft on July 22, 2010 at 4:36pm

thank you Jan!! You gave me a great ideas!

Comment by Susan G. Salvo on July 22, 2010 at 7:13am

Hi Everyone,

Thanks again for attending the webinar on Technology in the Classroom.

Whitney and I referenced a few web resources during the webinar and we thought to share them with you. Here they are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhPgUcjGQAw

http://educationtrainingsolutions.com/wp/resources/

www.lynda.com

The archived version of the webinar has also been posted to the ABMP website at www.abmp.com. You can review it by logging in and going to the ABMP Archived Webinars section.

If you are not yet a member, contact them and they will show you how.

Comment by Jan Schwartz on July 21, 2010 at 6:23pm

Krista, I teach biz at an acupuncture school and the students there have contacted other career schools in the area and asked to be able to talk to those schools business classes about the benefits of acupuncture. If they didn't have a space for guest speakers we requested to post flyers in the student area. It was very well received. We ran a special for students of the other schools and got a good response, plus new relationships are building between the students, which is cool.

Comment by Krista Witthoeft on July 21, 2010 at 5:41pm

does anyone have any good ideas for my students to do marketing/advertsing the massage clinic? they have already done the complete business project, but this would be focused on the clinic they are about to enter. they have to do 60 hours worth of massage in 120 hours.

Comment by Sandy Fritz on July 20, 2010 at 3:06pm

Jan Schwartz and Whitney Lowe can help you I think Education training solutions http://educationtrainingsolutions.com/wp/

Comment by Sue Heldenbrand on July 20, 2010 at 2:51pm

I'd like to set up a series of video classes that include holistic health, basic energy work information, energy based techniques, chakras, etc. Someone could purchase as many lessons as they would want and continue with lessons at their convenience. I welcome any suggestions on the best way to approach this and how to set it up on my website..thanks Susan for your info..I checked on your site and got some ideas. I'm in the beginning planning stages. I would need flexibility in customizing it.

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