Ideas for my Research Project

In the previous class, we all discussed ideas we have for what we would like to do our research project on. In class, I explained that I would like to do a research project on the ways children learn to read and write. I know this statement is broad, so I was thinking that I could make it more specific by picking a few of the ways that children learn to read and write (for example: how a visual learner would learn to read and write). I believe this would be a topic for me to research not only for this class, but for my further schooling since my major is Elementary Education. As an education major, in my classes we have discussed the different ways people learn, but we never really went into much detail, especially in the research aspect. Therefore, I believe this would be a great topic for me to do my research project on.

While I am home on break during the summer and winter, I work at a preschool. Preschool is basically the main place where children learn to read and write. The preschool I work at goes from six months old to kindergarten. I think talking to the kindergarten teacher and watching the students while they are learning to read and write would give me great insight into my research project. I would like to ask the teacher if she notices the different ways that the students learn and then I would like to watch for the differences in the students ways of learning. As a hopeful teacher and a person who is interested in english studies, I believe this is one of the most important things for me to understand. Furthermore, I would love to research the different ways that students learn. I think it will be interesting to see the way a visual learner learns to read and write as opposed to a spatial learner, and so on.

Along with watching the students at the preschool, I think it will also be important to research different books on the different ways that people learn and how it affected the way children learned to read and write. A possible question could be: are logical learners better or worse at learning to write than spatial learners? Lastly, I am excited to get a start on this research project. I feel it will be me more insight into the head of a child and to help me understand how to become a better teacher.