Entrance Slip: Embodied learning -- Henderson & Taimina paper

Bodily experiences can be described as physical and visual learning that can consolidate knowledge in a way that typical classroom learning sometimes cannot do. In my opinion, bodily experiences are very useful as a learning tool in the classroom, however I don't feel that it should be the main, or the only way to learn. My philosophy for teaching at the moment involves teaching with several different techniques: oral, visual, physical, etc. I believe that in doing this, a greater range of learners needs will be met since everyone learns better through different techniques. Therefore, bodily experience will definitely be useful to me. Furthermore, as a hockey coach it is easy to see that physical learning has a huge impact on children's learning and consolidation. You can't learn to play hockey from watching a hockey game, you actually have to physically play it to learn it. In the same way, you can't fully learn in school until you put the concepts into practice. When you incorporate physical and embodied aspect to learning you create a new dimension through which many students who otherwise would not learn, now learn. Overall, embodied learning is a tool that should be used by teachers in every class to an extent that is in the discretion of the teacher.