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Learning Styles
Tonia Brown
Gemma Ollerenshaw
Naomi De Steunder
Tania Comber
Objectives
Trainees will:
• Become more familiar with the main theories of learning styles relevant in schools today.
• Understand how they might impact on planning and development as a classroom practitioner.
• Become aware of the complexities and subtleties of learning style theories.
Brain Gym
Learning styles can be classified in many different ways:
• They are the overall patterns that provide direction to learning and teaching.
• A set of factors, behaviours and attitudes that facilitate learning for an individual in a given
situation.
• The process by which people perceive and process information.
• It is individual.
Styles influence:
• How students learn
• How teachers teach
• How the two interact
Definition of learning styles
How do you like to learn something new?
• Learn by listening to somebody explain?
• Learn by reading?
• Learn by seeing a demonstration?
Fun and games
Find a partner
Sit back to back
One person has a picture
The other person a plain piece of paper and a pencil
The person who has the picture describes it to the person with paper and pencil
The person with paper and pencil draws what the person with the picture describes to them
You have five minutes …….
Fun and games
Look at the next slide for 20 seconds
rabbit water blue newspaper
Jupiter
cake comma divide cocoon
four
torso
villain
France
Gruffalo hour
You have two minutes ……
Write down all the words you can remember
And
A definition
Origami
You have five minutes to
make your model
How did you find the activities ?
We all learn in different ways ..
Some of us are visual and remember what we see
- learn by looking so remember pictures, words and what we
see
Some of us are auditory and remember what
we hear
– learn by listening so remember sounds, discussion and what
we hear
Some of us are kinesthetic and remember what we
touch and feel well
– learn by doing so remember action/hands on learning
activities
Some prefer to use the left
side when learning, some
prefer to use the right
Words, reading,
language
Numbers
Logical, ordered
Makes plans
Likes facts
Follows rules
Tidy, organised
On time
Prefers black and
white statistics
Art and being
creative
Needs big picture
Takes risks
Music rhyme and
rhythm, movement
Has ideas
Imagines, role-play
Disorganised
Prefers pictures
Left brained? Right brained ?
Each person has certain tendencies towards a
particular style.
These can be influenced by culture, personal
experiences, maturity level and
development.
BUT
although we tend to have a ‘fast lane’
– a sense we prefer to use
- we learn best when all three are engaged.
Brain Gym
These exercises are designed to synthesize the visual,
auditory and motor skills
In other words get the right side and the left side of
the brain working together
Questionnaire
• What sort of learner are you?
(go to corners of room , aesthetic, visual,
kinaesthetic, discuss why chose that learning
style. Given questionnaire at tables. Group
discussion are you surprised by the results?)
Gemma’s bit
Learning styles in the last twenty
years
(Naomi )
To learn we also need : To be in a happy, safe, secure environment
To drink water
To have breakfast and a healthy diet
To have enough sleep
To have oxygen
To have no worries/stress/baggage
• Just a thought, should we hand out some
biscuits at this point …. And have a couple of
bottles of water ??? Ready for the group
discussion ……
Group discussion
Based on the learning styles you have just used,
how would you integrate these into the
classroom in different subject areas?
(A3 sheet paper, marker pens, brainstorm ideas.
Give each group one subject area)
(Gemma)
Feedback.
Plenary!
• Not sure what we will do here …
Learning and the Senses Effective teaching usually combines several approaches, or multi-sensory instruction, so
the child uses more than one sense at a time while learning.
Multi-sensory approaches work well because of the way our brain is organized.
When we learn, information takes one path into our brain when we use our eyes,
another when we use our ears, and a yet a third when we use our hands.
By using more than one sense we bombard our brain with the new information in
multiple ways.
As a result we learn better.
Rief (1993) says that students retain:
10% of what they read
20% of what they hear
30% of what they see
50% of what they see and hear
70% of what they say
90% of what they say and do
History (handout possibly?)
• 1904 Alfred Binet (French psychologist) developed first intelligence test.
• 1907 Dr Maria Montessori invented the Montessori method of education. She began using materials to enhance the learning styles of her students. Believed that students demonstrate mastery through their actions.
• 1950 – 1970 The study of learning styles declined for around fifty years due to the emphasis on IQ and academic achievement.
• 1956 Blooms Taxonomy (Benjamin Bloom) a step towards defining learning style differences.
• 1962 Isabel Myers-Briggs and Katherine Briggs developed Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• 1976 Dunn and Dunn learning style model was introduced, generating diagnostic instruments for evaluation.
• 1984 David Kolb developed learning style that believed learning skills are closely related to cognitive skills.
• 1990’s Emphasis placed on teachers addressing learning styles through curriculum adjustments that include each style. Allowing each student equal chance to learn.
Stuff that tonia has put together
for handout