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Title: Learning Styles and Concepts of Learning: How the way we learn may affect how we teach


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Learning Styles and Concepts of LearningHow
the way we learn may affect how we teach
Part II

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Part II
  • Using surveys and quizzes to help determine
    individual learning styles and concepts of
    learning

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Learning Styles
  • Visual verbal
  • Visual non-verbal
  • Auditory (use hearing to learn)
  • Kinesthetic and tactile learner (learns best by
    touching, feeling touch, experience, moving )

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Quizzes for Determining Learning Styles
  • http//homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/ls
    tyleqz.htm
  • http//www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsitest1.htm
    l
  • http//www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
  • http//www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?pquest
    ionnaire
  • http//www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_q
    uestions.html
  • http//homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/ls
    tyleqz.htm

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Concept of Learning
  • Visual Spatial
  • use the right hemisphere to learn
  • think in pictures rather than words
  • imaginative,
  • have a difficult time repeating instructions
  • put things together in unique ways
  • need to understand the big picture
  • see an end product
  • process without understanding
  • need more time to process than visual auditory
    sequential learners
  • despise routine and repetitive tasks, these
    learners dont know how they got to the finished
    project or goal
  • Auditory Sequential
  • Uses the left hemisphere to learn
  • are analytical
  • think with words
  • Do not not pictures
  • Proceed step by step
  • learn well with instructions

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  • Questionnaire for Determining Concept of Learning
  • (may be geared to children but can be adapted for
    adults )
  • http//www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Vis
    ual_Spatial/
  • http//www.ucanlearn.net/more_articles.php?ID18
  • Do you think mainly in pictures instead of words?
  • Do you know things without being able to explain
    how or why?
  • Do you solve problems in unusual ways?
  • Do you have a vivid imagination?
  • Do you remember what you see and forget what you
    hear?
  • Are you terrible at spelling?
  • Can you visualize objects from different
    perspectives?
  • Are you organizationally impaired?
  • Do you often lose track of time?
  • Would you rather read a map than ask for a verbal
    direction?
  • Do you remember how to get to places you only
    visited once?
  • Is your handwriting slow and is it difficult for
    others to read?
  • Can you feel what others are feeling?

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Using Concept of Learning
  • Easier to adapt
  • Easier to meet the needs of all students

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Please proceed to part 3
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Bibliography
  • http//homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/ls
    tyleqz.htm
  • http//www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsitest1.htm
    l
  • http//www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
  • http//www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?pquest
    ionnaire
  • http//www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_q
    uestions.html
  • http//homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/ls
    tyleqz.htm
  • http//www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Vis
    ual_Spatial/
  • Linda Silverman, in her book Upside-Down
    Brilliance http//www.ucanlearn.net/more_articles.
    php?ID18
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