Insights for Teachers: Teaching All Types of Learners eBook

This PDF will help you be a more effective teacher as you work with Blues, Golds, Greens, and Oranges. It features 40 content-rich pages which describe how each color prefers to be taught and interact with their teachers, coaches, and trainers. Empowered with this information, you’ll be able to teach nearly everyone you meet!

Most of us are teachers at some point in our lives, regardless of whether we currently have a responsibility to teach learners. We act as teachers when we make a presentation, deliver a speech, show a Cub Scout how to carve a Pinewood Derby car, or describe the process of repentance to a room of Sunday School students. As educators, we each have our own particular “teaching style” and if that style doesn’t accommodate the “learning style” of our audience, we will probably be unsuccessful in our efforts.

Teaching styles and learning styles can be defined in terms of color. Gold teachers instruct in a Gold way with structured environments, detailed lesson plans, traditional instructional techniques, and firm discipline. On the other hand, Blue teachers instruct in a Blue way with interactive environments, individualized lesson plans, creative and unconventional learning activities, and loose discipline.

Of course, one particular teaching style isn’t inherently better or worse than another. However, if you teach in only one way, and your learners learn in a different way, true learning may not take place. For example, teaching Blue students in Gold ways will likely produce frustration—for everybody. Like Blue teachers, Blue students thrive on interaction and face-to-face dialogue. They enjoy working in small groups on artistic or significant projects. If Gold teachers don’t consider these preferences and occasionally alter their presentations, the Blue students will feel alienated. Therefore, if you’re a Gold instructor who only teaches in a Gold way, and if all your students are Gold, everything is fine—you and your students are comfortable with your teaching style. But if you have students who are Green, Orange, or Blue, you need to alter your teaching style to accommodate their learning preferences.

Most professional educators are Gold, even though there are a fair number of Blues who prefer to teach younger children and Greens who prefer to teach adults. This helps explain why so many non-Gold students, especially Oranges, have trouble in educational settings. Imagine what could happen if teachers would learn to understand, appreciate, and tolerate a variety of learning styles and if students were taught to adjust to different teaching styles.

Book Contents

• Applying Colors in the Classroom
• Understanding Education
• Blue Learners
• Gold Learners
• Green Learners
• Orange Learners
• Learning Preferences Checklist
• Blue Teachers
• Gold Teachers
• Green Teachers
• Orange Teachers
• How to Engage Learners
• Teaching Blues
• Teaching Golds
• Teaching Greens
• Teaching Oranges
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Dale’s Cone
• Your Colorful Brain
• Brain Dominance
• Dramatic Learning Model
• Four Questions
• H.I.P.A.
• Shapeshifting Signs
• Self-Image Wheel
• Building Self-Image
• What’s Next?