SLD: Steps to Success

1. SLD: Steps to Success Learning Skills Centre

2. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening The programme is built on the principles that learning performance can be performed by: • a better self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses • building on those strengths

3. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening You are about to be marooned on a desert island. Think of three things you would like to have to help you survive:

4. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening When you were thinking, did you • see things • name things • see and name things?

5. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Did you • see them before you named them? • name them before you saw them? • both?

6. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening What I didn’t tell you is that tigers live on the island. Can you name one thing you wish you’d got without seeing it? • Yes • A bit • no

7. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Can you see one thing without naming it? • yes • a bit • no

8. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening You are about to find an odd one out puzzle If you solve it, you can escape.

9. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Click on the odd one out: A B C D E F C H I J K L Click on the odd one out: 0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * * 0 * 0 *

10. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening When you first began to solve this puzzle did you: • Look at the whole pattern and expect the odd one out to jump out at you? • Look at the sequence step by step?

11. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Which one worked for you? • Look at the whole pattern and expect the odd one out to jump out? • Look at the sequence step by step?

12. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening You have won a holiday. Your tickets are included. You leave tomorrow.

13. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening There are two groups for our winners Choose the one you would prefer to join: • an expert will give a talk on the subject • an expert will lead a discussion and you are invited to join in

14. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Are you good at taking part in discussions? • Yes • No

15. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Do you find yourself fidgeting with your pen or other objects when trying to listen? • Yes • Sometimes • No

16. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Do you like rocking back on your chair? • Yes • Sometimes • No

17. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Do you find you want to stand up and move off more quickly than those around you? • Yes • Sometimes • No

18. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Do you like to have more than one thing on the go and move from one thing to another • Yes • Sometimes • No

19. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Click on today’s date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 When using the telephone do you get the numbers mixed up when you dial? • Yes • No

20. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Is your spelling poor? • Yes • No Do you mix up dates and times and miss appointments? • Yes • No

21. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Do you find forms difficult and confusing? • Yes / No Do you find it difficult to take messages and pass them on correctly? • Yes / No Do you mix up bus numbers like 159 and 195? • Yes / No

22. Dr. Ross Cooper:Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening Thank you and we will now compile the results of your assessment

23. Visual or verbal?

24. Holistic strategies Holistic strategies include: • Trying to “see: what things mean • Thinking what it means before you start • Deciding why you are learning something (purpose) • Reading the summary first • Making connections to things you already know • Skimming and scanning to identify key points or priorities • Making mind maps • Creating meaningful models • Making up analogies /metaphors • Thinking how you might use the learning

25. Sequential strategies Sequential strategies include: • Learning first principles • Following through problems and their solutions • Testing yourself on questions and answers • Focusing in on specific parts of the learning • Ensuring that you understand all the vocabulary • Identifying the evidence and reaching a conclusion • Doing background reading • Planning what you are going to do in what order • Learning the rules

26. Does moving help your concentration? • drink plenty of water • eat when you feel the need (but not sugar!!) • change the light to suit you (particularly when reading) • listen to slow baroque music if you find background noise helps you concentrate • work at the time of day that suits you as far as possible • select study skills that suit your leaning style

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