Creating and using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Creating and using Learning Profiles in the Classroom Enhancing Education Through Technology Grant Pam Black October 20, 2009

The Whole Learner: Learning Profiles Learning Profiles detail the way individuals learn best. Categories of Learning Profile Factors Learning Style Preferences Intelligence Preferences Culture-Influence Preferences Gender-Based Preferences

Learning ProfilesLearning Styles

Learning Styles and Strengths Auditory Learners Learning Style Tactile Learners Visual Learners Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners Kinesthetic Learners

Learning Profiles Multiple Intelligences Strengths

Multiple Intelligences: How are you smart? Word Smart Self Smart People Smart Logic Smart Nature Smart Picture Smart Music Smart Body Smart

Learning Profiles Culture-Influenced Preferences

Learning Profiles Gender-Influenced Preferences

Using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Why use learning profiles in the classroom? • Tapping into the routes for learning promotes efficientand effective learning for students. • Helping students understand their modes of learning that work best for them ensures lifetime learning. • Offering options allows each learner to find a good learning fit in the classroom Tomlinson, 2001

Using Learning Profiles in the ClassroomStep I Discover your own learning style and multiple intelligence strengths: http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsiframe.html • Take the Learning Styles Test I and II • Take the Multiple Intelligence Assessment • Explore the information provided on your learning style and multiple intelligence strengths.

Using Learning Profiles in the ClassroomStep II: Gathering facts about the learners in your classroom… • Record Review • Learning Styles (Gregory & Chapman, p. 20-21) • Interest Inventories ( Gregory & Chapman, p.21) • Multiple Intelligences (Gregory & Chapman, p. 28… • Thinking Styles ( Gregory & Chapman,p. 23)

Rubric for knowing the learners in your classroom

Using Learning Profiles in the ClassroomStep III: Create learning profile friendly classroom Begin by remembering Some, not all of your students share your learning style Continue by helping Students explore and reflect on their own learning profiles Implement by Retrofitting for Individuals or Differentiating for the whole class

RETROFITTING Match and MismatchStudent vs. Class • Realize a process is not working and remodel for a student. • Gather facts about the learner • Gather facts about the class/lesson • Content Demands • Process Demands • Product Demands • Identify mismatches • Brainstorm solutions.

Implement Strategies that Support Learning Differences for all: 1. Vary the presentation of content…. auditory visual kinesthetic Whole-to-part tactile Part-to-whole • Vary student mode of expression and teacher assessment… Write a poem Conduct an inventory Create a power point Dramatize or act out Conduct an interview

Push me! See how far I go! Work me ‘til I drop. Then pick me up. Open a door, and then make me run to it before it closes. Teach me so that I mgith learn, Then let me enter the tunnel of experience alone. And when, near the end, I turn to see you beginning another’s journey. I shall smile. Kathleen, age 14

Creating and using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Creating and using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

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Creating Input Profiles

Using in the Classroom

Using Cooperative Learning in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom

Learning Outside the classroom Using ict and Technology

Classroom Management - Creating a Learning Environment

Creating a Classroom Website Using Weebly

Classroom Management: Creating Productive Learning Environments

Creating Profiles in EBSCO admin

Using Music to Benefit Learning and the Classroom

Mobile Learning: Using SmartPhones in the Classroom

Creating Customer Profiles

Creating and Using Rubrics in the Classroom

Using Learning Centers in the Classroom

Creating METS Application Profiles using METS and MODS

Creating an Active-Learning Classroom

Creating Avatars in the Classroom

Creating and Using a Wiki/Website in your Classroom

Creating and Using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Using WebCT and Laptops For Active Learning in the Classroom

Using in the Classroom

Using Cooperative Learning in the Secondary Mathematics Classroom