Fostering students’ learning styles

1. Laura SoraccoElena Urrutia Fostering students’ learning styles

2. What happens when we learn… • What would you think? • What would you do?

3. Where brain theories came from… Right brain/Left brain or “split-brain” theory by neuropsychologist and neurobiologist Roger Wolcott Sperry in the 1960’s (1981 Nobel Prize). • It challenged the established and accepted view that the brain was basically one entity with interchangeable parts. • It also showed that the circuits of the brain are largely hardwired – each nerve cell tagged with its own individuality early in embryonic development. • The coexistence in the same individual of two functionally different brains was demonstrated: if the two hemispheres of the brain are separated, the transfer of information between the hemispheres stops.

4. The Left hemisphere is the one with speech, and is dominant in all activities involving language, arithmetic, and analysis. • The Right hemisphere, although mute and capable only of simple addition (up to about 20) is superior to the Left in, among other things, spatial comprehension – in understanding maps or recognizing faces, for example. • Until Sperry’s experiments, it was doubted whether the Right hemisphere was conscious.

5. When you volunteer… • What do you see? • What can you say? It all depends on how individuals perceive what they see around them. Our mission: • To understand that every person learns differently • To foster students’ learning styles in our classes

6. When we practice… • How can I know what kinds of learning styles make my students learn best? • How can I foster the weakest learning styles in my classes? • What kinds of activites can help me achieve this goal?

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