assist the individual to improve their learning by providing a summary of their preferred learning style. The VARK questionnaire contains 16 questions that identify four sensory modalities of learning: Visual‚ Aural/Auditory‚ Read/Write‚ and Kinesthetic. This student was unaware of her preferred learning style preference and according to (Rogers‚ 2009) most people do not know their learning style preference. This paper will analyze VARK‚ and will identify and demonstrate and learning strategies
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gTOK 11 summative assessment quarter 2 Jacqueline Blok 21/11/11 Compare and contrast knowing a friend to knowing how to swim‚ knowing a scientific theory and knowing a historical period. What conclusions about nature of knowing can you reach? Thinking I knew how to swim I jumped into a pool and nearly drowned. The one friend who was always there for me‚ who I thought I knew‚ left me without a goodbye. Thinking that a light year was a measurement of time‚ until I had a physics class. I though
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you can learn about how you learn‚ you can study and absorb information much more effectively. In 1987‚ Neil Fleming who has dedicated his life to explore teaching and learning‚ developed a popular model called VARK (Visual‚ Aural‚ Read/write and Kinesthetic) to show that there are many ways an individual can learn effectively. “VARK is a questionnaire that provides users with a profile of their learning preferences. These preferences are about the ways that they want to take-in and give-out information
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Effective Communication and Collaboration in Team Settings Working in an unfamiliar environment can be tough for one to fathom. Add individuals with different backgrounds‚ personalities‚ ethics and views to the recipe and the result can be either cataclysmal or a successful learning experience. A key resource to success in work and team relationships is the knowledge to recognize certain personality traits and learning specifics of other individuals. Only then can one acclimate to communicate
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“Gay (2000) defines culturally responsive teaching as using the cultural knowledge‚ prior experiences‚ and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective for them: it teaches to and through the strengths of these students.” I found this definition to be very effective and a great summary of the overall topic being covered. It hit on many of the different points and aspects of having a culturally responsive classroom and also how to be a culturally responsive
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classroom. For instance‚ the English teacher at Jeff high school used it during her class to get tactile-kinesthetic learners engage in learning. Not to mention the history teacher said that he used many hats to teach cultural values
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Scott Hines COLL 110‚ T/TH‚ 2:00-2:50 Study Behaviors Essay Hi‚ my name is Scott Randall Hines‚ I am a freshman at St. Cloud State University and I am from Fairmont‚ Minnesota. My Major at SCSU is Elementary Education. I participate in wrestling here and I really enjoy the wrestling team. In this essay I will be talking about my test results from different test we took in class‚ study behaviors‚ and what I plan to change to improve my study skills. In preparation for this essay I took several
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The VARK Learning Style Assessment was designed by Neil Fleming in 1987. VARK stands for Visual‚ Aural‚ Read/write‚ and Kinesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning information. His assessment is a questionnaire that asks an individual 16 questions pertaining to how they like to learn new information‚ specifically how they like to take in information‚ use it for effective learning and communicate this information to others effectively. Once an individual completes the questionnaire
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Deception Detective How often do people lie? If someone asked you how many times a day you lie‚ what would you say? People most commonly say they lie two times a day‚ this is an understatement. In actuality people lie about seven to eight times a day. Men and women tell different kinds of lies. Men tell self oriented lies‚ which means they tell lies about themselves. Women tell un-oriented lies‚ which means they tell lies about other people‚ specifically lies about other women. Typically
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mean giving some students time to work alone so that they can formulate their thoughts. The key is to setup and teach lessons that support the three main learning styles visual‚ kinesthetic and auditory. For the visual learner use a lot of illustrations such as maps‚ pictures‚ and charts are helpful. The kinesthetic learner needs a lot of hands on learning‚ so
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