Learning styles (D-SA-LSI) 3 exercises for enhancing awareness and articulation of learning styles

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Learning styles(D-SA-LSI)3 exercisesfor
enhancing awareness and articulation of learning
styles
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Learning strengths and weaknesses

• Is a learning strength the same as having a
  strong/very strong learning style?
• Is a learning weakness the same as having a
  weak/very weak learning style?
• No!

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fx this profile
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Have a closer look at your learning styles
profile

• 15 minutes individual investigation and
  reflection
• Look at your profile and use the tables in the
  interpretation manual to think about
• Where do you see your learning strengths
  reflected in your profile?
• Where do you see your learning weaknesses
  reflected in your profile?
• Make notes for yourself

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Learning strengths

• Tell the person next to you (5 min. each)
• Which parts of your profile reflect your learning
  strengths?
• Ill ring a bell when it is time to switch

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The value for me as a student?
Sternberg, 1997 The key principle is that in
order for students to benefit maximally from
instruction and assessment, at least some of each
should match their styles of thinking. I would
not advocate a perfect match all the time
Students need to learn, as does everyone, that
the world does not always provide us with a
perfect match to our preferred ways of doing
things. Flexibility is as important for students
as for teachers (p. 115).
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How do you become more flexible learning style
wise and in your ways of thinking?

• Knowledge about styles
• Knowledge about own learning styles
• Reflection on own practice
• Openness to other ways of thinking
• Willingsness to use other ways of thinking in a
  strategic manner

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Benefits from working with your learning styles
profile

• Knowledge on preferences of thinking in learning
  situations
• ? Which are your strengths and weaknesses in
  different contexts?
• Knowledge on/understanding of diversity
• What are the differences between my own
  preferences and those of others? co-students as
  well as teachers?
• Possibilities of development
• Flexibility
• Strategic use

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Learning style and learning strategy

• Both can reflect the same mental processes
• Style the persons naturally preferred ways of
  thinking in learning situations
• Strategy the persons consciously chosen ways of
  thinking in learning situations
• Ways of thinking represent different ways of
  perceiving and approaching various types of
  problems and situations in the given context.

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Learning weaknesses

• Tell the person next to you (7 min. each)
• Which parts of your profile reflect your learning
  weaknesses that you would like to work on
  strategically?
• Ill ring a bell when it is time to switch

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Possibilities for continuing your work with your
learning styles in relation to? group work?
classes? supervision

• Work and reflection book at www.cbs.dk/learningsty
  les