LSC Fall 2005 Level 1 Tutor Training WELCOME

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LSC Fall 2005 Level 1 Tutor TrainingWELCOME!

• Purpose
• To begin the training sessions new tutors
• Add new strategies and tools and share successful
  existing strategies and tools

You might also want to peruse the revised LSC web
site at http//www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/
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LSC Fall 2005 Level 1 Tutor TrainingLearning
Outcomes
Help tutors identify their own Learning
Preferences and be able to identify students who
may have strong preferences for learning. Help
tutors become more familiar with a variety of
study strategies and be able to help students
identify some strategies to try. Add to the
repertoire of strategies tutors have available to
offer to students to help them be more successful
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LSC Fall 2005 Level 1 Tutor TrainingTopics
Learning Preferences Model for assessing and
applying study strategies called the
Metacognitive Approach to Study Strategies
You might also want to peruse the revised LSC web
site at http//www.pvc.maricopa.edu/lsc/
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The 4MAT System

• Designed to provide understanding and insight
  into individual preferences for learning

Materials developed from 4MAT training materials
and from The 4MAT System by Bernice McCarthy,
Excel, Inc. 1981.ISBN 0-0608992-0-0.
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4MAT Conceptual Foundation
Sensing/Feeling

• David Kolb identified how we perceive new
  information and experiences.

Thinking
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4MAT Conceptual Foundation
Doing
Watching

• Kolb also identified how we process new
  information and experiences.

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4MAT Conceptual Foundation
Sensing/Feeling
Watching
Doing
Thinking
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4MAT Conceptual Foundation
Sensing/Feeling

• Kolbs descriptors for the four groups were

1 Diverger imaginative gestalt social
4 Accommodator adaptive pushy trial error
Watching
Doing
3 Converger practical tinkerer doer
2 Assimilator goal setter planner systematic
Thinking
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4MAT Conceptual Foundation
Carl Jung
Sensing/Feeling
1 Feelers
4 Intuitors
Watching
Doing
2 Thinkers
3 Sensors
Thinking
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The 4MAT System
Bernice McCarthy
Sensing/Feeling
1 Innovativelearners
4 Dynamiclearners
Watching
Doing
3 Commonsense learners
2 Analyticlearners
Thinking
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Quadrant OneInnovative Learners
Perceive Sensing/Feeling
Why?
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Process Watching
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Quadrant TwoAnalytic Learners
Process Watching
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What?
Perceive Thinking
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Quadrant ThreeCommon Sense Learners
Process Doing
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How does it work?
Perceive Thinking
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Quadrant Four Dynamic Learners
Perceive Sensing/ Feeling
What now, What if...?
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Process Doing
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The 4MAT System
Innovative Learners
Dynamic Learners

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2
3
Analytic Learners
Common Sense Learners
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Learning Style Preference

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Insights Sharing
Innovative Learners
Dynamic Learners

Common Sense Learners
Analytic Learners
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Insights Sharing
Identify and share which quadrants
characteristics fit you best and why.

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Insights Sharing
As you were learning about the characteristics
of the quadrants, did someone you know come to
mind?

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Learning Preferences

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Learning Cycle
Learners Experience
Instructor motivates/
witnesses
Instructor evaluates/ remediates
Purpose/ Hook
Presenting/ sharing
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Learners Observation
Learners Experimentation
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3
Content
Practice
Instructor coaches
Instructor teaches
Learners Conceptualization
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Learning Cycle
Answer the 4 questions
WHY?
WHAT IF...?
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4
2
3
WHAT?
HOW?
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Traditional Education
Homework/ Test
Lecture
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Traditional Education
Homework/ Test
Lecture
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Implications for Learning
Answer the 4 questions

WHY?
WHAT IF...?
1
4
2
3
WHAT?
HOW?
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Hemisphericity Learning Styles
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Hemisphericity Learning Styles
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Hemispheric Characteristics

• A summary of the
• left brain characteristics
• could include
• Sequential
• Organized
• Logical
• Analytical

• A summary of the
• right brain characteristics
• could include
• Intuitive
• Non-linear
• Spontaneous
• Holistic

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Hemispheric Characteristics

• There is
• no right or wrong,
• no better or worse,
• only a major or minor preference.

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Hemispheric Characteristics
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Hemispheric Characteristics
R or L?
R or L?
R or L?
R or L?
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The Complete 4MAT System
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The Complete 4MAT System
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4MAT as a Tool for Learning
McCarthy has incorporated the model below and
credits Dr. Rick Sheets with this explanation.

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Implications for Learning
What can help the learner succeed?
1's--understanding the purpose or the big
picture. 2's--understanding the logic, order, or
sequence of the concepts or ideas. 3's--practicin
g and even creating some of their own problems or
applications. 4's--sharing how they will use
this concept.

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Applying 4MAT

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• The whole point of the 4MAT System is to better
  understand learning preferences and, in doing so,
  to honor, and celebrate those differences.

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• We are not to be
• copies.
• Each of us is an
• Original!

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