What type of modality do I learn with?
As for in the airplane, learning by touch is the most obvious way to learn. But there is also the visual to consider. Especially grasping what the side pictures and outside reference points should be looking like. I am not much for auditory learning. I tend to zone out or get really tired and bored. Maybe it's ADD? Hope not. I'm a hands-on type of guy. I know I have learned something when it becomes natural to me. I remember past instructors telling me how to do something and having to wrap my brain around how it felt to perform the maneuver. Until that occurred, I struggled.
Points I will use in my teaching:
1. I think it's interesting how people associate meaning to things that they learn. In my own experience, learning power-on stalls, I tend to associate negativity. I struggled at first getting the recovery right and my instructor would become impatient and irritable. Those feelings of anxiety still come out when I perform maneuvers that at first seemed difficult. Knowing this, and drawing from my own experience I will be better able to realize how a student is perceiving a situation has a lot to do with his performance.
2. I also want to try to incorporate using all three types of learning styles in my teaching. Realizing that when you can teach visually, auditorilly, and kinestethically, students will retain much better what they learn. One example that I can think of is teaching airport traffic patterns. Show an unfamiliar airport (visual), act as ATC to give directions (auditory), and have the students chairfly (kinesthetic).
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