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Learning Styles and Teaching Methods

Learning Styles and Teaching Methods. Two sides of the learning coin. Studying at University. Adult learning is all about building knowledge developing understanding, gaining experience motivation to learn learning styles teaching strategies to facilitate learning

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Learning Styles and Teaching Methods

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  1. Learning Styles and Teaching Methods Two sides of the learning coin

  2. Studying at University • Adult learning is all about • building knowledge • developing understanding, • gaining experience • motivation to learn • learning styles • teaching strategies to facilitate learning • reading; writing; thinking; discussion

  3. What part do you play? • Shared responsibility • Doing your bit • Empty vessels? • Learning as opposed to being taught • Active not passive

  4. Building knowledge • From the known to the unknown • Using the framework of the module • Using learning outcomes – a road map for learning

  5. Developing understanding • Developing understanding • thinking about thinking • systematic reflection • setting goals • Using experience • reflecting on past experience • Assessing how it can be used

  6. Motivation to learn • Motivation • the energy that drives and directs the individual • Motivationto achieve • the effort the individual perceives as meaningful • Motivation to learn • Internal motivation • External motivation

  7. Motivation and learning • Three types of learning • Surface learning • Motivated by the desire to pass • Deep learning • Motivated by the desire to learn • Strategic learning • Motivated by a desire to pass but targeted

  8. What is your learning style? • Using the concepts in the last slide, can you identify your own learning style? • What is the advantage of knowing how you learn? • How can this be assessed?

  9. Learning Styles Pyramid Model http://www.creativelearningcentre.com/LSA_roll.asp

  10. Strategies for learning • Reading • Writing • Thinking • Discussion in class, in small groups • Assessment/feedback

  11. What do teachers do? • Facilitate • Guide - provide the map • Assess • Feedback • Otherwise known as teaching

  12. Teaching strategies • Lectures • large numbers, little depth, efficient • Tutorials • smaller numbers, exploratory, active • Small groups • active, concentrated and goal oriented • Individual support

  13. To summarise • Studying at university • What part you play in the learning process • Building knowledge & developing understanding • Motivation to learn • Learning styles • Learning strategies • Teaching strategies

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