Would you like to be a sense-ational teacher?

Are you an innovative teacher who is always looking for new pedagogical strategies when you teach in the classroom? Are you interested in helping your students develop their full English skills? Do you encourage your students to make use of their five senses when they learn a foreign language?. If your answer was yes to any of the above question, then you may well be a teacher who is putting into practice Multisensory Teaching. Multisensory Teaching is a new and useful tool that teachers are using to teach English in schools. This magnificent teaching strategy is connected with the use of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.

It is well known that teachers should be conscious of Multisensory Teaching. Nevertheless, most teachers do not take advantage of the five wonderful channels their students that have. During my work experience obsevations at Saint George’s College, I have seen something different happen.. In most classes I have observed teachers activate their students’ five senses. For instance, teachers encourage their students not just to use their eyes to see or their ears to listen to carefully, but also, to take risks and to use their body or taste in order to learn.

The implementation of this new way of teaching has had positive results on students’ lives. They even do not hesitate to say that they like English classes because they have the opportunity to develop their skills through watching movies, singing English songs, using their bodies to learn different English topics such as prepositions, parts of the body, types of clothes, and so on and so forth. Teachers who are keen on exploting new abilities in their students advise that if teachers use the Multisensory Teaching strategy in their classes, they will have more interactive and fun classes than teachers who are just focus on grammar or vocabulary.

My best piece of advice for teachers is to analyse your teaching styles and strategies inside the classroom. If you improve your educational practices, you will be able to give your students the chance to discover their personal strengths. Besides, those analisis will help you to identify that there are many different learning styles present in a classroom. As I wrote above. The good new about this is that I strongly believe there are many alternative teaching methods that can be used to help students in this process of developing their five senses. In this point, teachers have the huge responsibility to understand that each student is a unique world. It is also important that educators remember that, the more emphasis you put into developing your students’ ablilities, the better results you will receive.