My Personal Learning Style
When it comes to my own learning style I am reflective, meaning I need to stop and think about what I am learning and why. It helps me to pause and write things down, and to implement continual note taking.
This leads into my next style of learning –visual. While in a course, I will learn best if the instructor is offering diagrams, visuals, charts or bullet points during instruction. I will need to simultaneously take notes on these visuals to best comprehend what is being taught.
Finally, I am a sequential and sensing learner. This means that I enjoy learning facts and find it extremely helpful when a professor offers clear steps and guidelines, and he or she includes explicit directions during instruction.
My Teaching Style
Because I am cognizant of my own learning style and aware of all the different learning styles that people possess, I am able to adapt my teaching, instruction and planned student activities to meet a multitude of different learning styles. For example:
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Active Learners: retain information best if they have a hands-on experience with the information being taught. Collaborative work and interactive activities will benefit these types of learners.
Reflective Learners: retain information best if they are provided an adequate amount of time to reflect on what they are learning and why. Reflection and closure to a lesson will benefit these types of learners.
Sensing Learners: enjoy learning facts. Hands-on, interactive experiments with cause and effect situations, and the incorporation of realia, will be beneficial to these learners.
Intuitive Learners: prefer discovering possibilities and relationships. The use of bridging information from what is already known and real world situations to what is being learned, along with an in-depth explanation of concepts and reasoning during instruction will best assist this group of learners.
Visual Learners: remember best what they see. To best teach visual learners, I will use a myriad of visual representations during explicit teacher instruction, color code written information, and provide modeling for student activities.
Verbal Learners: will retain more information when it is presented in word form. To best assist verbal learners, I will offer collaborative work opportunities, and provide students with clear outlines of expectations and goals to assignments.
Sequential Learners: learn best with the use of clear guidelines and instructions. As the teacher of potential sequential learners I will offer clear guidelines, goals and objectives, and expectations. I will have organized step-by-step directions to activities, and attempt to keep the class discussions on topic.
Global Learners: learn best when they understand the big picture and how it relates to real world scenarios. The use of bridging information from what is already known and real world situations to what is being learned, along with an in-depth explanation of concepts and reasoning during instruction will best assist this group of learners.
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