Learning Styles, Sensory Channels and Choosing Training Materials
CSP written lesson, 10 min read. CSP Domain 7: Training
Written with AI help from the rules it covers, then fact-checked against them. Study aid, not site-specific safety advice. The official rule controls.
What you'll learn
- Define learning style, sensory channel, instructional aid and training media
- Describe the visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic (VARK) channels and what each needs from a lesson
- Explain why designing to a single preferred style is disputed and what the FAA recommends instead
- Audit a lesson plan for channel coverage and calculate the share of time each channel gets
- Choose between diagrams, models, mock-ups, cut-aways, projected material and video for a stated objective
What this lesson covers
This lesson covers what learning styles are, the visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic channels, why the evidence for matching teaching to one preferred style is disputed, and how to build materials and pick instructional aids, models, mock-ups and projected material so that every lesson reaches several channels.
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