Learning Styles

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Learning Styles
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Four Learning Styles

• Enthusiastic
• Imaginative
• Practical
• Logical

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Learning in Two Dimensions

• Learning involves two major cognitive dimensions
• Perception
• Processing

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Perception Continuum
Feeling (Concrete Experience)

• Students have a preference for perceiving
  information
• Preferences range across a continuum from
  Concrete (feeling) to Abstract (thinking)

Thinking (Abstract Conceptualization)
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Processing Continuum

• Students have a preference for processing of
  information
• Preferences range across a continuum from
  Reflection to Action

Doing (Active Experimentation)
Watching (Reflective Observation)
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Perception (Vertical Axis) Processing
(Horizontal Axis) 4 Stages of Learning
Feeling
Feeling Watching
Feeling Doing
Watching
Doing
Thinking Watching
Thinking Doing
Thinking
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Four Learning Styles
Feeling
II. Imaginative
I. Enthusiastic
Feeling Watching
Feeling Doing
Watching
Doing
IV. Logical
III. Practical
Thinking Watching
Thinking Doing
Thinking
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Four Learning Styles
II. Imaginative Perceives through
feeling Processes through reflection Student is
people-oriented, imaginative, good at generating
alternative points of view.
I. Enthusiastic Perceives through
feeling Processes through action Student is
strongly action oriented, manages tasks and
people by doing, innovating, hands-on practice.
IV. Logical Perceives through thinking Processes
through reflection Student is idea (not people)
oriented, good at reasoning, comfortable with
concepts and data.
III. Practical Perceives through
thinking Processes through action Student is task
(not people) oriented, good at problem solving
and making practical applications.
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Student Strategies for Learning Around the Circle
Feeling
II. Imaginative Being personally involved,
harmony in the classroom, cooperation,group
work, inquiry, and insight
I. Enthusiastic New things, action and
accomplishment, cooperation, group work, inquiry
learning
Watching
Doing
IV. Logical Research, routines, repetition,drill,
take notes,time lines, task orientation
III. Practical Getting to the point, strategic
thinking, practical applications, plans and time
lines, justice
Thinking
Learning Around the Circle results in more
complete learning.
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Dislikes of Learning Styles
I. Enthusiastic Objective tests, seat work,
following directions, doing research, writing,
formality, theory, sterile environments
II. Imaginative Debates, memorizing, lectures,
being rushed, rote learning, textbook learning,
being singled out, sterile environments,
insensitivity,coverage vs. depth
IV. Logical Creative projects, role plays, small
talk, warm-up activities, discussion, unclear
deadlines, impracticality, irrelevance, group work
III. Practical Fuzzy ideas, theory and
philosophy, lecture, impracticality, group work,
unclear deadlines
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Maximum Learning Requires Learning Around the
Circle

• Each learning style type is a STAGE in learning
• Logical learners must also use Enthusiastic
  skills
• Imaginative learners must also use Practical
  skills

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Summer 2003
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