Learning Styles
Web Assignment #3- Learning Styles (RESUBMISSION)
Antoinette Gentile 260537380
EDPI 341: Instruction in Inclusive Schools
Professor G. Scott Conrod
McGill University
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Nowadays, in the field of education, it is pretty well established that all students learn differently. While some may be visual learners, others can be auditory learner or kinesthetic learners…etc. The list of teaching methods go on, considering that there are numerous possibilities and combinations of teaching methods that can be used in the classroom. As future teachers, it is important that we incorporate several different methods and styles of teaching into our classrooms, in order to reach out to as many students as possible. The following learning style theories have greatly impacted the way many educators view teaching.
The first learning style theory that will be presented is by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist who is considered to be one of the pioneer’s in developing a theory on learning styles. During the first half of the 20th century, Jung developed a theory that grouped individuals according to their personality traits. 1 He divided individuals into four groups. The first group of learners were either identified as being introverted or extroverted; in the second group, individuals classified themselves as either sensing or intuitive learners; the third group of learners were either considered to possess a feeling or think learning style; and in the last group, the learners were grouped depending on whether or not they preferred judging or perceiving information. Every learner was said to rely more strongly on one of the traits in each group.
The following two theories were developed in the eighties, around the same time that the multiple intelligences theory was developed by Howard Gardener. The first theory is by David Kolb, an American psychologist who was
Antoinette Gentile 260537380
EDPI 341: Instruction in Inclusive Schools
Professor G. Scott Conrod
McGill University
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Nowadays, in the field of education, it is pretty well established that all students learn differently. While some may be visual learners, others can be auditory learner or kinesthetic learners…etc. The list of teaching methods go on, considering that there are numerous possibilities and combinations of teaching methods that can be used in the classroom. As future teachers, it is important that we incorporate several different methods and styles of teaching into our classrooms, in order to reach out to as many students as possible. The following learning style theories have greatly impacted the way many educators view teaching.
The first learning style theory that will be presented is by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist who is considered to be one of the pioneer’s in developing a theory on learning styles. During the first half of the 20th century, Jung developed a theory that grouped individuals according to their personality traits. 1 He divided individuals into four groups. The first group of learners were either identified as being introverted or extroverted; in the second group, individuals classified themselves as either sensing or intuitive learners; the third group of learners were either considered to possess a feeling or think learning style; and in the last group, the learners were grouped depending on whether or not they preferred judging or perceiving information. Every learner was said to rely more strongly on one of the traits in each group.
The following two theories were developed in the eighties, around the same time that the multiple intelligences theory was developed by Howard Gardener. The first theory is by David Kolb, an American psychologist who was