Wk. 2 Learning and Teaching Styles “In almost every actual well-designed study‚ Mr. Pashler and his colleagues write in their paper‚ ‘Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence‚’ the pattern is similar: For a given lesson‚ one instructional technique turns out to be optimal for all groups of students‚ even though students with certain learning styles may not love that technique.” (2009) I wanted to start this paper with this quote since it did involve some sort of evidence that teaching in one style
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their students learning habits and are able to adapt to a students learning styles to better educate them. Some may not know in what category of learning style that they are‚ there are online surveys one can take to find out there learning style strengths. I myself have just taken a survey and my results are as follows; Visual: 7 Aural: 9 Read/Write: 4 Kinesthetic: 9. Pretty much what this means is that I am good at listening and hands on learner. The survey also provided learning strategies to
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Visual Learning Style I took the learning style quiz to determine what my learning style is. I was not surprised when it came back stating I was a visual learner. As a visual learner I remember what has been written down‚ even if I don’t read it more than once. I like to write things down and pay attention to lectures if I watch them. That way I can stop them and take notes and rewind if necessary. That is why I enjoy online learning. If I were in a typical classroom setting I would have to
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Students’ Learning StylesLearning is a complex process of acquiring knowledge or skills involving a learner’s biological characteristics/senses (physiological dimension); personality characteristics such as attention‚ emotion‚ motivation‚ and curiosity (affective dimension); information processing styles such as logical analysis or gut feelings (cognitive dimension); and psychological/individual differences (psychological dimension) (Dunn‚ Beaudry‚ & Klavas‚ 1989). Due to the multiples dimensions
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My Learning Style My Learning Style Everyone has different styles in which they learn. Some are auditory‚ some visual and some require hands on or kinesthetic. In taking the Learning Style Inventories‚ my results concluded that I am an auditory learner. According to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning‚ 2012 “If your highest preference is auditory‚ you prefer to learn by listening and often recall the words you ’ve heard in your mind. If you are taking a written test‚ this tends
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Bill Fisher Preparing to teach in the lifelong sector Learning Styles- V A K VAK theory is widely recognised by teachers - particularly those who recommend accelerated learning techniques - but the idea that we receive information via different modes has been around considerably longer than that and can be traced back to the work of Grace Fernald ("Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects") who promoted kinaesthetic learning techniques; Samuel Orton’s work on dyslexia; Anna Gillingham’s subsequent
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My Learning Style Learning is defined by Webster as a cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge‚ while a learning style is the preference for a manner in which you encounter and or learn information. The one learning style that I feel best suits me is diverging‚ for the simple reasoning of theory that divergers often look at from different perspectives. Although it is said that with this learning style people tend to watch rather than do is one area where I differ‚ I’d rather watch
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Learning styles and Competencies Did your personality spectrum profile and competency results surprise you? Why or why not? My personality spectrum profile and competency results did not surprise me. I knew what kind of personality and learning style I had beforehand. It just reconfirmed what I already knew about myself. I have an organized style of approach to everything I do‚ from learning‚ daily everyday tasks
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PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE Who would have ever thought taking a college course would require one to learn how to learn? It is a good concept we normally undergo at a very young age. At the pre-school age one will find children learning their strength and weakness through their playtime. As adults we almost forget we have to learn how to learn to continue growth in our workplace‚ school‚ and in life. In our second week of online classes I learned strengths and weakness in my learning style with the
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Kolb Learning Styles Final Report Unit 5 Project by Chassidy B. Kolb Learning Styles David Kolb’s theory of learning styles is one of the best known and widely applied and it suggest that learning is a cyclic process which involves an individual proceeding through each of the following four stages and will eventually prefer and rely upon one style more than the others. The four styles are: Divergers‚ Convergers‚ Accommodators and Assimilators. Research has shown that these four
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