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What’s Your Learning Style

What’s Your Learning Style. Assignment. Use the slides in this power point to get the needed information for this assignment Question 1: What are the characteristics of each of your learning styles (5 points). For full credit, list a minimum of 2 per learning style.

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What’s Your Learning Style

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  1. What’s Your Learning Style

  2. Assignment • Use the slides in this power point to get the needed information for this assignment • Question 1: What are the characteristics of each of your learning styles (5 points). For full credit, list a minimum of 2 per learning style. • Question 2: What could you do to help improve your classroom and study skills? Tips are given on each slide. (5 points).  • For full credit, answer these questions with at least 5 complete sentences each.  Type this assignment in a word document and include your name, class period, and date. Print when finished.

  3. Active • Retain knowledge best by doing something active • Also learn by applying it or explaining it to others • “Let’s try it out and see how it works”- active • Like group work • Should try to study in a group to enhance the class

  4. Reflective • Prefer to think about a topic quietly • “Let’s think it through first” • Prefer to work alone • To study write short summaries of readings or class note

  5. Sensing • Enjoys learning facts • Likes problem solving • Doesn’t like being tested on items that have not be thoroughly covered • Patient with details • Good at memorizing facts & doing hands on labs • Practical and careful • Courses must have real world applications • May rely too much on memorization • Ask for specific details in class or do additional research

  6. Intuitive • Prefer discovering possibilities & relationships • Enjoy innovation and dislike repetition • Good at grasping new concepts & abstract/mathematical calculations • Tend to work faster • Do not like memorization and routines • Can miss important details • Ask for interpretations or theories to link facts • Easy to make careless mistakes on tests due to impatience

  7. Visual • Remember what they see- pictures, diagrams, carts, demonstrations, etc • Search for matching diagrams in outside studies • Watch videos or cd’s relating to the topic • Color code your notes with a highlighter

  8. Verbal • Learn from words • Like written and spoken explanations • Enjoy listening to lectures • Write out summaries & outlines of your notes • Working in groups can be effective

  9. Sequential • Gain understanding in linear steps • Follow logical plans in finding solutions • May not fully understand but can still complete the steps involved • Struggles in a class with random teachers • Need to be sure to ask for “missing steps” and clarification • Should outlines lecture materials to help study

  10. Global • Learns best in large jumps • Absorbs information randomly • Usually don’t understand to start but has a ‘lightbulb’ moment of understanding • Have to grasp the whole picture before understanding the steps • When studying skim over the information for major points then look for the details • Need to relate to what the information to what you already know

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