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LEARNING AND TEACHING

LEARNING AND TEACHING. Placing the learner at the centre of educational practice With thanks to Sarah Palmer, Director of Learning, Queens’ School, Bushey for her help in the preparation of this presentation. Session Aims.

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LEARNING AND TEACHING

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  1. LEARNING AND TEACHING Placing the learner at the centre of educational practice With thanks to Sarah Palmer, Director of Learning, Queens’ School,Bushey for her help in the preparation of this presentation

  2. Session Aims • To examine differences in learning styles and suggest ways to encourage development of different forms of learning • To identify your individual preferred learning styles and consider their impact on classroom practice

  3. Summary of Research • Neural Linguist Practitioners (NLP) • sensory preference for receiving and making sense of new information • Learning Cycle (Kolb) • action-experience-reflection-conceptualisation • Multiple Intelligences (Gardiner) • the balance of intelligences affects one’s preferred way of learning • Thinking Styles (Gregorc) • accessing and organising information

  4. We all aspire to be good teachers but do we allow all our students to be good learners? Should teachers adapt to learners, or learners to teachers?

  5. Why Bother? • It benefits the students • It encourages independent learning • Accessing a preferred learning style promotes a sense of ownership • It benefits you • Stress-free • Imaginative teaching adds energy and creativity

  6. What Is a Learning Style? • Research has suggested that learning styles are strategies or regular mental behaviours that are habitually applied by an individual to learning. • Three Learning styles-VAK • Visual (29% prefer to learn by seeing) • Auditory (34% prefer to learn by sound) • Kinaesthetic (37% prefer to learn by doing)

  7. Visual • Characteristics • prefer to see the information • like reading text • memorises by writing repeatedly • when inactive, doodles, looks around • Enhancing • visual representation of information-posters etc • Visualisation-imagine • Visual prompts • Concept maps

  8. Auditory • Characteristics • like to listen to teacher • talks fluently and logically • memorises by repeating words aloud • inactivity leads to talking to self or others • Enhancing • active listening • rhyme and rhythm-mnemonics • imagine you can hear …

  9. Kinaesthetic • Characteristics • hands on • talks about actions, speaks more slowly • inactivity leads to fidgeting • distracted by physical disturbance • Enhancing • use objects that can be manipulated • acting out • body language and physical movements

  10. Principles for Developing Lessons • Allowing situations where we ensure that the learner has the greatest capacity for self learning • That different learning styles does not mean creating endless materials • Identifying that teachers have a tendency to create learning opportunities akin to their preferred learning style • That a multi sensory approach enables more students to access learning • Awareness of the range of learning styles within a group of students-staff and pupil understanding • Kinaesthetic activities and behaviour

  11. Practical Examples • Visual • mind maps, colour highlighting, pictures/charts • Auditory • Discussions, debates, mnemonics • Kinaesthetic • Circling sections, role-play, ordering objects, human lines, flash cards Project based activities tend to bring a multiple learning style approach into the classroom

  12. Creating a learning environment • If students are going to learn, we need to consider the learning environment, in particular: • Displays • Room layout • Who sits with whom • Music/water for students? • Classroom rules and consequences • Classroom rewards

  13. Creating a learning environment

  14. Activities (1) • Complete the attached questionnaire which will help you to identify your preferred style of learning: • Visual • 1a,2a,3a,4b,5b,6b,7c,8c,9c,10a • Auditory • 1b,2b,3b,4c,5c,6c,7a,8a,9a,10b • Kinaesthetic • 1c,2c,3c,4a,5a,6a,7b,8b,9b,10c It is highly unlikely that you will only score in one learning style for the whole questionnaire

  15. Activities (2) • Teach one of the following in a way that appeals to visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners: • The LBW rule in cricket • The offside rule in soccer • The 13 times table • Different learning styles

  16. Activities (3) • The Accelerated Learning Cycle (Smith) • In small groups, study the seven yellow cards: • Sort these cards into the correct order so that ‘learners can be motivated and helped to believe they can achieve’ • Match the statements on the red cards to the statements on the Learning Cycle

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