Double Entry Journal #4

QUOTE: " Kinesthetic students face similar frustration when they are not allowed to move in a classroom. To relieve stress, they seek to break out of these constraints . When faced with several hours of desk work, for which they are required to "sit still" they tend to get up to sharpen their pencil several times, they ask to go to the restroom, or they drop things, so they can get up to retrieve them, They may seek to be class monitors, to run errands. If they can't engage in these activities, they will at least begin to move while in their seats: wiggling their legs, leaning back in their chairs, rocking, or tapping their pencils. When these actions are also not acceptable, they may resort to misbehavior as part of a psychological need to move. Teachers consider many of these behaviors as red flags for an attention (or behavioral) disorder."

RESPONSE: I found this part of the article to be the most interesting to me. In the begginning of the article it talks about how everyone today thinks that they can just label a child as ADD or ADHD based on their behaviors at an early age. But, a lot of the same characteristics show up with kinesthetic learners. As mentioned above, if a student is told to sit and do desk work for hours and they are a kinesthetic learner, they are going to struggle because they do better with hands on learning. So then, they go and find things to do around the classroom to keep themselves busy and this is when the teacher classifies the student as "ADD" or ADHD, which isn't right at all.

CITATION: Linksman, Ricki. The Fine Line Between ADHD and Kinesthetic Learners. (2007).

Video: Keys Learning. Fine Line Between ADHD and Kinesthetic Learners. (2011).


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This Video basically supports everything that is said in the article. Kids are often classified as ADD or ADHD by teachers and everyday people when they really aren't. Kinesthetic learners are often the most misread because they need to learn with hands on things, and if the activity isn't hands on, then they can't sit still.