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Learning Styles
Learning Style
• Each person prefers a pattern of thought and behavior that influences the learning process.
Teaching Style
• The way instructors teach, their distinct mannerisms, complimented by their choices of teaching behavior and strategies
75% of Teachers
• Sequential, Analytic Presenters and 70% of all their students do not learn this way.Jenson (1995, p 25)
Quote
• “If students cannot learn the way we teach them, then we must teach them the way they learn”
Performance Objective
• Through a lesson plan for this unit and an assignment to determine student learning styles, describe learning styles and incorporate learning styles into the management practices and instructional strategies to the satisfaction of the instructor of this course.
Enabling Objectives
1. Describe and identify learning styles
2. Identify the various learning styles of your students.
• Use information about learning styles to develop instruction and manage your classroom.
Categories of the Learning Process
• Context
• Input
• Process
Context
• The circumstances surrounding the learning
Dunn and Dunn Model
• Emotional
• Physical
• Environmental
• Sociological
• Phychological
Input
• Learners must have input to initiate learning
Brandler-Grinder Model
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic/Tactile
Experiment for Determining Input
• Photo of students & teacher – experiment-like
Process
• The actual manipulation of the data
Hermann Brain Dominance Model
• Personality and Learning preferences– Left Cerebral– Right Cerebral– Left Limbic– Right Limbic
Gregorc/Butler Model
• Concrete Sequential
• Concrete Random
• Abstract Sequential
• Abstract Random
Identification of Student Learning Styles
• Use of instruments
Using the Knowledge of Learning Styles
Methods Preferred by Students in Styles
• By Concrete Sequential students
• By Abstract Sequential students
• By Abstract Random students
• By Concrete Random students
Concrete Sequential
• Recreate graphic from CD
Concrete Random
• Recreate graphic from CD
Abstract Sequential
• Recreate graphic from CD
Abstract Random
• Recreate graphic from CD
Methods Frequently Used by Teachers
• Practice and Drill• Questioning• Cognitive Memory
Questions• Convergent
Questions• Lectures and
Explanations• Class discussion
• Teacher Developed Materials
• Whole-Group Instruction
• Daily Work Grades
What Good Teachers Recognize
• Some students do best with hands-on approach
• Some students learn from books that challenge their imagination
• For some students, appreciate is essential to learning
• For others, clarity of presentation is everything
• Some students are actively attuned to their environments
What Good Teachers Recognize(Continued)
• Some students are quietly processing all of that information
• Some students need structure and clear guidelines
• Some students are free spirits and choked by the same structure that gives security to other classmates
Three Keys to Understanding Learning Styles
• The brain learns in many ways
• Use a variety of learning methods
• Provide a choice so that can choose at least 50% of the time
Best Way to Learn About Your Students
• Watch
• Listen
• Engage
Summary• Everyone has his or her own style of learning.• It is important for teachers to know about their
students’ learning styles• The environment affects our learning style as well as
what we take in and how we process information.• We as teachers must realize certain factors about
students• The key to helping students learn is to realize that
they all have different learning styles and teachers should use a variety of methods to address the variety of learning styles