73: Learning Styles: The Different Ways We Learn (and Play!)
Guest: Sivanne Lieber, Parenting Coach, Educator, The Joyous Parent
This episode has been a long time coming! Two years ago in Episode 16, we had our first conversation on education with Dr. William Spady, the father of outcome based education. He said that only a quarter of learners learn best in the traditional academic way, which is truly astonishing how few of us are thriving in the school setting. This sparked the question, what about the rest of learners? How do people learn and how can we better support them in schools?
We’ve done a whole series on Reimagining Education and explored some of the groundbreaking new approaches to schooling. However, at its most fundamental, we’ve been trying to understand what the learning styles are, and that time is finally here! Joining us as we explore these questions and delve into the 8 learning styles is one of our favorite returning guests - parenting coach, long time educator, and self-proclaimed joyous parent - Sivanne Lieber.
In this episode we talk about:
The 8 learning styles and how they can be used in the classroom and at home.
Why some people consider learning styles to be a “myth” or “debunked” and why this isn’t necessarily true.
How understanding the learning styles can help us empower our children and ourselves in our learning.
Resources for discovering more about the different learning styles and where different learners can shine.
How learning and playing are often one and the same!
About Sivanne Lieber
Sivanne Lieber is a self-proclaimed joyous parent who is dedicated to leading a passionate and purposeful life with a blanket of self care, unapologetic gratitude, and mindfulness. With a B.A. in Integrative Arts, a Masters of Education, and through her work as a Progressive Educator for almost two decades, Sivanne has a deep understanding of childhood development, behavioral schemas, project-based instruction, play-based learning and inquiry approaches, neurodiverse learning supports, mindful meditation, reading and writing remediation and much more. Sivanne is a certified Tinkergarten Leader for play-based learning in the nature classroom, and is trained and certified in Visual Thinking Strategies, the Responsive Classroom program, and Constructivist Math. Sivanne has received training to be a W.E.L.L. coach through i.b.mee Empowerment Education and as a Teach For America alumna, she has worked with hundreds of children to not just learn their a,b,c's but to become upstanding change-makers who use their beautiful, creative minds to shift the world. Sivanne has a plethora of experience in restorative justice, Second Step social-emotional learning, equity work, and is a passionate advocate of radically inclusive, social justice oriented classrooms and childrearing.
After almost two decades of experience in a myriad of school settings from startups to public schools to youth at risk programs with educators and parents from all walks of life, Sivanne has now leveraged her knowledge and expertise to develop a Four Phase Joyous Parenting Methodology that she believes can help parents and caregivers overturn their definition of what their parenthood is and can be.
A yogi, avid hiker, food lover, songwriter, and artist, Sivanne strives to fill each of these blessed days with her amazing husband and beautiful daughter with light, laughter, creativity, and the next twist and turn of this crazy, glorious journey.
Links so you can explore more:
Get Sivanne’s Learning Styles Guide at www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Learning-Styles-Guide and check out the rest of her store at www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Joyous-Journey-Learning-Hub.
For more on Sivanne and the Play Revolution, visit www.thejoyousparent.com!
To explore more topics on education, listen to our Reimagining Education Series and our first episode on education, Episode 16: Powerful Possibilities in Transforming Education and Empowering Our Kids.