Learning Styles: A Short Overview

A spiral learning approach is one in which a topic or skill is touched on several times over several years, with greater detail covered each succeeding year.

Unit learning are educational studies based on a theme that cover a number of school subjects. They can replace most or all regular subjects for a full year, or can be done on a short-term basis as a break from regular studies. Unit studies tend to involve a lot of hands-on activities.

Sequential learning is when a topic or skill is taught in a logical order, and when a skill is mastered before the next logical skill is introduced. Sequential learning in history is taught in chronological order.

Some curricula focus on a single grade at a time, and you can only teach multiple children if they are all in the same grade range. A multi-level curriculum, on the other hand, allows parents to combine children of multiple ages, teaching them together. Typically, subjects like math and language arts must still be taught separately, but history, science, and fine arts are structured to allow children to be combined for general reading time. Specific assignments are tailored toward general age ranges to allow different levels of challenge for different ages.

Curriculum learning is a book or series of books used as the main text for a subject or unit study. After the reading from this book or series has been assigned, other books and resources are scheduled to fit in with the topics.

Combined Learning is the ultimate one-size does NOT fit all learning program. You choose from any learning style to create a combined program that features multiple different methods to discover your child's preferred and optimal method.