- lots of reading,
- assignments involving reasoning and analyzing,
- attention to detail
- quantitative methods,
- linear, organized approach to lessons, and
- a syllabus showing what will happen when.
Our educational system seems to favor a left-brain style, with an exception being activities that involve creativity.
Using both left-brain and right-brain activities is a way to reach both kinds of learners. For example:
- Draw illustrations on the whiteboard, or ask students to draw them.
- Show video clips and discuss them afterwards.
- Use web-based learning since the web has lots of pictures and using it is not sequential.
- Use a chat room for brainstorming ideas for projects, then use asynchronous communication to choose ideas and develop them further.
- Assign students a final product or project that has a creative element as well as an analytical element.