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Learning styles

Learning styles. Why they are important. Low satisfaction or poor performance can be misinterpreted as lack of knowledge or ability when it is difficulty with learning Teachers who understand learning styles are better able to adapt their teaching methods

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Learning styles

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  1. Learning styles

  2. Why they are important • Low satisfaction or poor performance can be misinterpreted as lack of knowledge or ability when it is difficulty with learning • Teachers who understand learning styles are better able to adapt their teaching methods • Varied teaching methods lead to more motivated and engaged learners • Students who know their styles are better learners and better achievers

  3. Why they are important • A teacher who knows his/her learning style is more aware of the disparities among the class members and can adapt their teaching • Styles have strengths and weaknesses and can be mixed

  4. Classifications Kolb is the ”guru” of learning styles He developed a cycle of learning in which immediate/concrete experiences provide the basis for observations and reflections These observations can be distilled into abstract concepts which produce actions which can be actively tested to create a new experience

  5. Honey and Mumford • Developed a learning styles questionnaire based on Kolb’s theories • Postulated that people’s preferred styles vary with situational change (horses for courses) • Their cycle is having an experience –reflecting on it - Drawing conclusions- putting theory into practice

  6. Honey and Mumford Cycle

  7. The 4 Styles

  8. What kind of car does ~ drive • ACTIVISTS - Red and racy • PRAGMATISTS - Fords • REFLECTORS - Old Cars • THEORISTS - Volvo (practical)/Astra (economic)

  9. What is a ~ favourite breakfast cereal? • ACTIVIST - Snap crackle and pop or free toy • PRAGMATIST - Whichever pack needs emptying or the kids won’t eat • REFLECTOR - Porridge • THEORIST - Muesli with fruit/fresh juice

  10. What would ~ name a baby • ACTIVIST - Willow Storm Forest • PRAGMATISTS - John Susan • REFLECTORS - Amy Matthew • THEORISTS - Anything timeless shortenable and untainted

  11. What is ~ favourite song? • ACTIVIST - Agadoo or the Birdy song • PRAGMATIST - We can work it out • REFLECTOR - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay • THEORIST - Dem bones dem bones

  12. Another way of looking at it • Visual (spatial) • Aural • Verbal • Physical (kinesthetic) • Logical (mathematical) • Social (interpersonal) • Solitary

  13. Minimising weaknesses In groups: 1. Look at the strengths and weaknesses of your learning style 2. What compensation strategy would you use to minimise one of your weaknesses 3. What strategies would you like your tutor to use

  14. Index of learning stylesActive or reflective (Processing)

  15. Index of learning styles 2Sensing or intuitive (perception)

  16. Index of learning stylesVisual or verbal (Input)

  17. Index of learning stylesSequential or Global (understanding)

  18. In groups List what and how you would present to Auditory, Visual and Kinesthetic learners

  19. How/what to present

  20. Development Styles

  21. Leadership Styles • Visionary • Commanding • Coaching • Affiliative • Democratic • Pacesetting • Charismatic

  22. Visionary • Use when need new direction • Goal is to move towards shared dreams • Leaders articulate goal but NOT how it will be achieved • Followers free to innovate experiment and take risks

  23. Commanding • Classically military • Most often used and least effective • Rarely uses praise • Undercuts morale and job satisfaction • Effective in a crisis

  24. Pacesetting • High performance standards • Obsessive about doing things better/faster • Can undercut morale and people feel as if failure • “Pacesetting spoils the climate”

  25. Coaching • One on one • Develops individuals • Connects individual and organisational goals • Works where people show initiative and want to develop • Can be seen as micromanaging and hence undermining

  26. Affiliative • Emphasizes teamwork • Creates group harmony • Increases morale • Improves communication • May let individual poor performance go uncorrected

  27. Democratic • Draws on knowledge and skills • Creates group commitment • Works best when goals unclear • Uses group wisdom • Disastrous in crisis

  28. Charismatic • Have style personality and confidence • Visions expressed as ideal goals • Can inspire followers • Self confident • Often lead into “bad” things

  29. And finally….

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