Reflection: Learning and Visual Learners
Reflection plays a huge part in increasing one 's self awareness. Assessing personal skills and strengths allows for an increased ability to improve upon existing abilities. This process takes careful planning and dedication in order to facilitate successful self improvement. The key is to look within and pull from both strengths and weaknesses to create a comprehensive development assessment.
Understanding a person’s individual learning style is one of the most important features in the developmental process. “Your learning style is the sum of the way you receive information and the way you process that information” (Jahiel, 2008, p.32). For the purpose of this discussion, the focus will be on the visual learning style. Visual learners acquire information through written work and therefore prefer to data in the form of handouts, lecture notes, flash cards, books, or Power Point presentations. Mixon (2004) said “Visual learners are often neglected in rehearsal because verbal instruction, which may be ineffective for them, is used most often. These students benefit from seeing graphic representations, visual models, and demonstrations of skills and concepts. Writing words or drawing figures will help these students learn new content.” Visual learners obtain and retain information in a much more productive way when they can see the information that they are being taught The process of facilitating a visual learner is a pretty simple one, but is sometimes overlooked by those providing information. Often times the information is provided verbally, but not followed up by written material to confirm. Visual learners tend take more notes, use color codes to differentiate information, and utilize symbols to note specific data. On another note, this particular style of learning also acquires knowledge well through verbal instruction.
Understanding a person’s individual learning style is one of the most important features in the developmental process. “Your learning style is the sum of the way you receive information and the way you process that information” (Jahiel, 2008, p.32). For the purpose of this discussion, the focus will be on the visual learning style. Visual learners acquire information through written work and therefore prefer to data in the form of handouts, lecture notes, flash cards, books, or Power Point presentations. Mixon (2004) said “Visual learners are often neglected in rehearsal because verbal instruction, which may be ineffective for them, is used most often. These students benefit from seeing graphic representations, visual models, and demonstrations of skills and concepts. Writing words or drawing figures will help these students learn new content.” Visual learners obtain and retain information in a much more productive way when they can see the information that they are being taught The process of facilitating a visual learner is a pretty simple one, but is sometimes overlooked by those providing information. Often times the information is provided verbally, but not followed up by written material to confirm. Visual learners tend take more notes, use color codes to differentiate information, and utilize symbols to note specific data. On another note, this particular style of learning also acquires knowledge well through verbal instruction.
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