LEARNING

1. LEARNING STYLES

2. Learning StylesPart I: Left or Right? Right Brain Learners • Left Brain Learners • (auditory – words!) • Learns best by … • ·Reading • ·Listening • ·Studying for fact • Memorizing • Learning Strengths… • ·Structure / Facts • Science, Math • ·Grammar (rules) • Multiple Choice / T-F: • “One Right Answer” • Thinking Power: • ·Linear, Sequential • ·Rational / Analytical • ·Logical / Thinkers Pictures / Experiences • Learns best by … • Doing (Hands On) • Participating • Seeing It Happen • Personal Involvement • Learning Strengths… • Concepts & Ideas • Art, Music, Creativity • Big Picture Thinking • Open Answer - Essays • “Many Possible Answers” • Thinking Power: • Spatial, Holistic • Imagination: “What If” • Emotional / “Feelers” • Expressive / Open

3. Right Brain Personality Left Personality QUIET INTROSPECTIVE Planners – Organized Neat & Structured Orderly Neat Room Neat Lockers Time Conscious Factual / Details ! Danger: may miss“Big Picture” LOUD, Socially Driven Extroverted, Outgoing Spontaneous - Hates Structure Sloppy / Disorganized But they get upset if anyone moves their stuff around! Seldom on Time! How / Why? Reasons! Danger: may not have all the key facts, details and information • Learns best by … • Doing (Hands On) • Participating • Seeing It Happen • Personal Involvement • Learning Strengths… • Concepts & Ideas • Art, Music, Creativity • Big Picture Thinking • Open Answer - Essays • “Many Possible Answers” • Thinking Power: • Spatial, Holistic • Imagination: “What If” • Emotional / “Feelers” • Expressive / Open

4. Left Brain AUDITORY LEARNERS Right Brain VISUAL LEARNERS • “BUTTERFLY” Insect • winged • Larvae • Classifications Tendencies • Flight • Metamorphosis • Cocoon • Caterpillar Similarities • moths • birds • planes BUTTERFLY ! FREEDOM ! Beautiful ! Colorful ! Happiness ! Why Butter? It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman ! I wonder what it would be like to fly? How fun would that be?

5. The Civil War • Generals • Lee • Grant • Battles • Dates • Names • Causes- Reasons • Sequence-Order • Weapons • Results Semantic Mapping Generals Dates Battles Names Sequence - Order Causes - Reasons Weapons Results:

6. Right - Visual / Kinesthetic Left - Auditory Lecture Listening Silence High Light Level Hard Chair “Sit Up Straight!” Pictures Visual Aids Music & Sounds Lower Light Levels Comfortable “On the Floor”

7. Now … put LS to work … Today’s Target: ______________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Left Brain / Verbal Activities Right Brain / Visual-Spatial ______________________ ______________________ _______________________ ______________________ _______________________ ______________________ • ______________________ ______________________ • _______________________ ______________________ • _______________________ ______________________

8. The Simpsons Self-Assessment Challenge

9. Organize It! Enumerate It! List It! Summarize It! Outline It! Memorize It! Read It! Accountant Learners Accountant Styles are ... • Consistent: they like patterns, schedules, routines • Reliable: they get the job done – exactly as expected • Independent: they like to work alone, rely on themselves • Sequential: they like everything in order, in the right place • Neat, Complete: they are organized “finishers” and “closers” • Efficient: they seek the simplest, easiest or clearest path • List-Makers: they are goal-oriented and project-oriented • Planners: they do not like “surprises” or changes -

10. Archaeologist Learners Archaeologists are learners who always seek to DIG DEEPER! Everything that Archaeologist do must be “analyzed” and “thought through” fully – no guessing, no hunches Archaeologists have a strong, even obsessive, need to know - they are motivated and driven to find answers Archaeologists must “take it apart” to see how it works Archaeologists need TIME – to reflect, digest ideas Archaeologists use logic and reason – Archaeologists move slowly and deliberately – err0r-free and fully done is always the goal Archaeologists need closure – they cannot leave anything “in progress” or “incomplete” – obsessing over incomplete answers or unfinished work Connections How? Why? Compare and Contrast Patterns

11. Emotional and Responsive to the needs of other people ! Learns best when the material is personalized – relevent, helpful! Learning needs to be “real-life” for them to make connections are They are often fine performers – they “get into” playing roles and showing emotion They are very compassionate & empathetic: They “walk in someone else’s shoes” Great TEAM players – they will do anything to help their TEAM succeed

12. The Artist is ... Flexible! Adventurous Innovative "What If" Thinker Strong-Willed unorganized? Passionate Perfectionist?

13. Do your Friends have a Learning Style ?

14. Accountants Associates It’s all about the TEAM and the FEELINGS It’s all about the job. Here’s how our classroom of A+ quadrant learners look … Artists Archaeologists It’s all about ME – I got it! Let me show you a new way!I Rule ! Watch me! It’s all about the mind? or is it?

15. Accountants Associates It’s all about the FEELINGS It’s all about the job. “Team Players” •Tell a personal story • make a connection from the reading to yourself. • Share an emotional response or an I-Card moment. * Interviews and Simulation Situations • • Brainstorm– Come to Group Consensus • • How does it applyto me/my real life? • * Work Together- Help One Another • • Jigsawthe Reading or Activity • • Peer Teaching/Pair- Share Reading • • ExperienceIt – Make it “Real-Life” “Facts and Details Count” •Listat least three important facts or details below. •Outline the key factors/big ideas in the chapter or reading •Memorize names, dates, facts or key events •Sequence– put steps or events in chronological order•Organize ideas into categories, stages/steps * Enumerate and List theMain Facts, Ideas, andConcepts •Summarize the major points in an article, passage, or text •Work independently— read, write, generate your own ideas Artists Archaeologists It’s all about the mind It’s all about my STYLE: “Go one step beyond” •Create a drawing, a symbol, or a memory cue * Be Involved in a Simulationor Activity • • Watch a Video, Show, or Demonstration • • Draw – Sketch –Create • • Hands On – Touch • • Create a Game and Play • • Write a Song, Rap, or Poem • • Make a Poster/Make a Collage “Examine the Evidence” •Write a metaphor (or simile): The brain is (like) a _____ • * Make Connectionsto Prior Knowledge • • Create Analogies – Metaphors – Similes • • Think – Write – * Analyze – Examine (deeper level BLOOM verbs) • Compare and Contrast • Ask “How” and “Why” questions • • Dig Deeper – Find the Deep Meaning • • Seek Patterns and Structures

16. Accountants Associates It’s all about the job. It’s all about the FEELINGS “Facts and Details Count” “Team Players” Artists Archaeologists It’s all about the mind It’s all about my STYLE: “Examine the Evidence” “Go one step beyond”