Download Why Learning Styles?

Today’s Agenda
1. THEORIES?!
2. Learning Pyramid
3. Learning Styles Notes
Daily Objective: Students will be able to
identify different preferred processing styles
(visual, kinesthetic, auditory) and explain
their implications for a lesson.
Homework: Lifeline Projects due Nov. 15, 16
THEORIES?!?!
Why study them?
Why do they matter to a teacher?
Specifically, how could he/she apply its
findings in the classroom?
Learning Pyramid
People Remember…
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hearing
hearing and seeing
reading
saying
saying while doing
something that reinforces
what they say
6. seeing
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Learning Pyramid
People Remember…
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of what they READ
of what they HEAR
of what they SEE
of what they HEAR & SEE
of what they SAY
of what they SAY WHILE DOING
Learning Style Questionnaire
Step One: Read statements 1-36. If the
statement is true about YOU: Circle it.
Step Two: Use the “Learning Style Grid”
to record your scores. Place an X in the
appropriate category for the items you
circled.
Learning
Style Notes
 Pedagogy is the art or science of being a
teacher.
 The term generally refers to strategies of
instruction, or a style of instruction
 Learning Styles (according to Dr. Dunn):
biologically and developmentally imposed set of
personal characteristics that make the same
teaching method effective for some learners
and ineffective for others.
Which style is favored?
 Visual: 46%
 Auditory: 19%
 Kinesthetic/tactile: 35%
*Most people like a mixture
 Visual (spatial). You prefer using pictures,
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images, and spatial understanding.
Aural (auditory-musical). You prefer using
sound and music.
Verbal (linguistic). You prefer using words, both
in speech and writing.
Physical (kinesthetic). You prefer using your
body, hands and sense of touch.
Logical (mathematical). You prefer using logic,
reasoning and systems.
Social (interpersonal). You prefer to learn in
groups or with other people.
Solitary (intrapersonal). You prefer to work
alone and use self-study.
 Your preferred styles guide the way you learn
 Change the way you internally represent
experiences, the way you recall information, and
even the words you choose
 Learning style uses different parts of the brain
 By involving more of the brain during learning, we
remember more of what we learn
 Brain-imaging technologies find out the key areas
of the brain responsible for each learning style
 Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven
distinct intelligences. This theory has emerged from
recent cognitive research and "documents the extent
to which students possess different kinds of minds
and therefore learn, remember, perform, and
understand in different ways.”
According to this theory, "we are all able to know the
world through language, logical-mathematical
analysis, spatial representation, musical thinking, the
use of the body to solve problems or to make things,
an understanding of other individuals, and an
understanding of ourselves. Where individuals differ
is in the strength of these intelligences - the socalled profile of intelligences -and in the ways in
which such intelligences are invoked and combined
to carry out different tasks, solve diverse problems,
and progress in various domains."
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Interpersonal
Verbal/linguistic
Musical/rhythmic
Logical/mathematical
Bodily/kinesthetic
Existential/spiritual
Intrapersonal
Visual/spatial
Natural
 Gardner used case studies of Autistic Savants
 Have severe mental disabilities and thus impaired
social skills
 Have some extraordinary mental abilities not found in
most people
 The Savant Syndrome skills involve striking feats
of memory and often include arithmetic
calculation and sometimes unusual abilities in art
or music
 Disproportionate regularity with which the triad of
blindness, mental disability and musical genius occurs
in savant syndrome
 Some are not autistic, but develop these abilities
later on in life usually as a result of some accident,
illness or trauma
 Some believe that the potential to be a genius is
latent in all people but is obscured by normal
functioning intellect
 In the case of savants, the damage to the brain has
somehow disrupted normal functioning and has
allowed the brain to access these latent skills.
 Savants are generally viewed as having exceptional
spatial intelligence but verbal defects.
Today’s Agenda
1. THEORIES?!
2. Learning Pyramid
3. Learning Style Notes
Daily Objective: Students will be able to
identify different preferred processing styles
(visual, kinesthetic, auditory) and explain
their implications for a lesson.
Homework: Lifeline Projects due Nov. 15, 16