Learning Styles

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Learning Styles
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Learning Style

• Each person prefers a pattern of thought and
  behavior that influences the learning process.

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Teaching Style

• The way instructors teach, their distinct
  mannerisms, complimented by their choices of
  teaching behavior and strategies

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75 of Teachers

• Sequential, Analytic Presenters and 70 of all
  their students do not learn this way.
• Jenson (1995, p 25)

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Quote

• If students cannot learn the way we teach them,
  then we must teach them the way they learn

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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.

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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.

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Categories of the Learning Process

• Context
• Input
• Process

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Context

• The circumstances surrounding the learning

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Dunn and Dunn Model

• Emotional
• Physical
• Environmental
• Sociological
• Phychological

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Input

• Learners must have input to initiate learning

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Brandler-Grinder Model

• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic/Tactile

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Experiment for Determining Input

• Photo of students teacher experiment-like

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Process

• The actual manipulation of the data

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Hermann Brain Dominance Model

• Personality and Learning preferences
• Left Cerebral
• Right Cerebral
• Left Limbic
• Right Limbic

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Gregorc/Butler Model

• Concrete Sequential
• Concrete Random
• Abstract Sequential
• Abstract Random

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Identification of Student Learning Styles

• Use of instruments

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Using the Knowledge of Learning Styles

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Methods Preferred by Students in Styles

• By Concrete Sequential students
• By Abstract Sequential students
• By Abstract Random students
• By Concrete Random students

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Concrete Sequential

• Recreate graphic from CD

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Concrete Random

• Recreate graphic from CD

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Abstract Sequential

• Recreate graphic from CD

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Abstract Random

• Recreate graphic from CD

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Best Way to Learn About Your Students

• Watch
• Listen
• Engage

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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