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Let’s Talk About Your Students

Let’s Talk About Your Students. What do you know?. What is learning style?. Learning styles are a combination of many biological and experientially imposed characteristics that contribute to learning, each in its own way and all together as a unit. Another Way To Think About It.

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Let’s Talk About Your Students

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  1. Let’s Talk About Your Students

  2. What do you know?

  3. What is learning style? Learning styles are a combination of many biological and experientially imposed characteristics that contribute to learning, each in its own way and all together as a unit.

  4. Another Way To Think About It Learning style is the way a student begins to concentrate on, process, internalize and remember new and difficult information. R. Dunn

  5. A Comprehensive Model With 21 Elements

  6. Is it fair?

  7. Let’s Process • How is this activity an analogy for what happens in many classrooms? • Consider this definition of fairness: Fairness is not necessarily giving every student the same thing; fairness is giving every student what they need to grow as much and as fast as they possibly can. • More thoughts about fairness?

  8. Environmental Strand

  9. Emotional Strand

  10. Motivation • Desire to succeed academically • Changes rapidly • May depend on perceived ability to succeed

  11. Persistence • To break or not to break • May be related to processing style and very difficult to change

  12. Responsibility • Responsibility – Conformity • Our definition – Desire to do what he/she ought to do, according to society • Strongest factor in incarcerated youths • More non-conforming boys than girls • Most non-conforming group – G/T • May not want to take responsibility for own learning

  13. Periods of Non-Conformity • Age 2 • 6th – 8th grade • 32 – 35 years of age • 50 years of age

  14. Things to Try • Tell the student why the task is important to YOU. • Give the student choices of how to show what he/she has learned. • Don’t speak authoritatively.

  15. Structure • Establishment of specific rules for working on or completing an assignment • Limit the number of choices • Typically – about 20 – 30% need structure; about 20 – 30% don’t need structure; others can go either way

  16. Sociological Preferences

  17. Physiological Strand

  18. Perceptual

  19. Complete the Learning Channel Preference questionnaire and total the points for each of the three areas.

  20. Find the area for your highest score. Go there now.

  21. Find the area for your lowest score. Go there now. Share your products.

  22. What were the differences in the first experience and the second experience?Please take a few minutes to reflect on this activity then we will talk.

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