Download learning styles and brain

Learning Styles
Purpose:
- Review outline of sensory modality based
learning styles
- Confirm own preferred learning style
- Reflect on the impact of personal learning
style on teaching style/planning
Myers Briggs Type Indicator testing
Visual
Learn best
by seeing
pictures,
diagrams,
etc.
Auditory
Learn best
by hearing
and
speaking
Kinaesthetic
Learn best by
doing, moving,
experiencing,
etc.
Visual
• Draw pictures and diagrams
• Colour code your work
• Use different colour paper and pens
• Use your own system of symbols, etc.
• Create images or scenes in your mind
Auditory
•Say your work out loud – give
presentations to an imaginary
audience
•Record notes (etc.) on tape
•Use silly noises to remember things.
•Hear the information in your mind
•Play instrumental music
Kinaesthetic
•Do actions when learning key facts
•Walk about when learning
•No need to sit at a desk
•Add emotions and textures to exaggerate
information.
•Try to experience what you are learning
In any group of students we will find on average:
37%
34%
29%
Kinaesthetic
learners
Auditory learners
Visual learners
The three learning styles mentioned
here are a broad guide
to help
you person has their
In reality,
every
think about
how you
own
personal
…consider
howlearn.
all the
ideas learning
covered style…
here today can help you to create your
own personal learning style.
Style-Specific Phrases
sometimes what you say reflects how you think!
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic
I see what you mean
It appears to me
This will shed some light on the subject
Show me what you mean
I hear what you say
That’s music to my ears
It’s all Greek to me
That rings a bell
I feel for you
I will be in touch
Hold on!
I can’t put my finger on it
PUPILS NEED TO ADAPT THEIR LEARNING
TO A VARIETY OF TEACHING STYLES
If your dominant
channel is auditory
(through the ears)
and your teacher is
a visual teacher you
need to train
yourself to take
NOTES so you can
talk it through to
yourself later.
If your dominant
channel is visual
(through the eyes)
and your teacher is
an auditory teacher
you need to train
yourself to take
NOTES so you can
see the words for
yourself.
If your dominant
channel is
kinaesthetic (through
touch) and your
teacher is either
auditory or visual you
need to train yourself
to take NOTES so you
can use the
movement of writing
for your learning.
HOW CAN TEACHERS/ASSISTANTS ADAPT THEIR STYLES
TO SUPPORT A VARIETY OF PUPILS?
Some people are very visual:
They have to see everything.
Others don’t want to see something
written down: they are the more auditory types:
they have to listen to it or talk about it.
Others are kinaesthetic: they have to
stand and move (or fidget and doodle).
Rate each of the following
statements, depending on
how true you think it is of
you, by drawing a ring round
the number:
4: Yes, this is very true of me
3: Yes, this is true of me
2: Sort of true/don’t know
1: Hardly ever true
0: Not true of me at all
Write down
your scores
for each
question and
then add up
your totals.
•Imagine yourself teaching.
•Is your learning style visible through your teaching?
•In your imagining, what were you doing which
demonstrates your learning style?
Teachers can be sensitive to what may appear to be
idiosyncratic behaviour, such as eating in class, wearing
lots of jumpers or wearing caps to block out light.
If teachers use multi-sensory techniques, use language
and activities which appeal to different sense modalities,
break teaching time up into different types of activities,
vary delivery between teacher-led and pupil-centred
activities, integrate activities to be undertaken alone, in
pairs, small groups and teams, the learning environment
will feel inclusive to a larger number of students.
S. Cottrell, Teaching Study Skills and Supporting Learning
PLENARY: any comments?
__________________________________
Purpose:
- Review outline of sensory modality based
learning styles
- Confirm own preferred learning style
- Reflect on the impact of personal learning
style on teaching style/planning