LEARNING STYLES

1
LEARNING STYLES

• Tim Ferguson
• Educational Skills Specialist
• Lake Michigan College

2
Four Keys To Success in College

• Assess your academic strengths and weaknesses.
• Discover and use your learning style.
• Develop critical thinking and study skills.
• Adapt to your instructors teaching styles.

3
Learning Style

• Definition-- your characteristic and preferred
  way of learning.

4
Four Components of Learning Style

• Your five senses
• Your bodys reactions
• Your preferred learning environment
• Your level of motivation

5
Four Learning Styles

• AUDITORY--learn by listening
• VISUAL--learning by reading or watching

• KINESTHET-IC/ TACTILE--learn by doing, touching,
  or manipulating
• MIXED--learn using all the senses

6
Learning Styles Inventories on the Internet

• http//www.clat.psu.edu/gems/Other/LSI/LSI.htm
• http//w3.tvi.cc.nm.us/gbw/learnstyle.html
• http//mcs.une.edu.au/anne/vark.cgi

7
Paper and Pencil Inventories

• Vark
• Kolb

8
Your Bodys Reactions

• Physiological Needs
• Peak Time

9
Preferred Learning Environment

• The way a class is structured is the learning
  environment.
• Learning Environments
• Teacher Centered
• Learner Centered

10
Locus of Control

• Who controls your life?
• Internal Locus of Control
• External Locus of Control

11
Internal Locus of Control

• Can see connection between effort and outcome
• self-motivated
• positive
• adapts to change
• doesnt believe in luck
• in charge

12
External Locus of Control

• doesnt see the connection between effort and
  outcome
• believes grades are based on instructor bias or
  luck
• negative
• fear change
• blame others
• victims

13
Developing an Internal Locus of Control

• Become a positive thinker.
• Accept responsibility for motivating yourself.
• Accept the fact that success results from effort.
• Start listening to yourself talk.

14
Locus of Control Internet Resources

• http//www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/control/edu
  cation.shtml