Learner Variables

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Learner Variables

• Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences

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Learning Styles

• An individuals general approach to learning
  not fixed, but a dominant way of negotiating
  reality
• Learning Style Profiles
• The Analytic Learner
• The Global Learner

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The Analytic Learner

• Prefers linear/sequential processing
• Looks for details
• May be field independent
• May be reflective
• May have a low tolerance for ambiguity
• Seeks closure
• May be left-brain dominant

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Activities for the Analytic Learner

• Story rebuilding
• Scrambled words and sentences
• Time-line, ordering activities
• Summarizing with structured formats-semantic maps
• Wheres WaldoTM
• CALL

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The Global Learner

• Prefers parallel and random processing
• Looks for the big picture
• May be field dependent
• May be impulsive
• May have a high tolerance for ambiguity
• Does not require fast closure
• May be right-brain dominant

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Activities for the Global Learner

• Open-ended activities
• Role play
• Story invention
• surveys
• Jigsaw reading/listening
• Unguided writing
• games
• charades, dance, improvisation
• CALL

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Learning Channels/Modalities

• Visual Learner
• Needs visual input
• Prefers written directions
• Auditory Learner
• Needs auditory input
• Prefers oral directions
• Haptic Learner
• Needs hands-on experience
• Requires movement and/or touch

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Activities for the visual learner

• Authentic/primary texts
• Photos
• Movies
• Visualization activities
• Map work
• Illustrations

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Auditory Learner

• Small group work
• Radio, TV, movies
• Music
• Story retelling
• bingo

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Personality Types

• Extrovert
• Derives energy from the external world other
  people
• Likes interactivity and communication
• Introvert
• Derives energy from the internal worldideas and
  feelings
• Likes working alone or in small, familiar groups

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Haptic Learner

• General audiomotor tasks (TPR)
• Games involving manipulation
• Object identification through smell, touch, taste
• Autograph activities