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Study Skills

Study Skills. Learning Styles – Discovering how you learn. Discovering our learning styles allows us to:. Seek out experiences that draw on the strengths of our styles Adapt our speaking, writing, thinking, and listening to the styles of other people

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Study Skills

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  1. Study Skills Learning Styles – Discovering how you learn

  2. Discovering our learning styles allows us to: • Seek out experiences that draw on the strengths of our styles • Adapt our speaking, writing, thinking, and listening to the styles of other people • Develop our skills at other learning styles

  3. When we learn, two things initially happen • Perceiving - how we ‘take in’ reality • Processing - how we internalize the experience

  4. Perceiving Concrete approach – sensing and feeling Abstract approach – analyze, intellectualize Processing Actively experimenting – “jump in” and do things Reflectively observing – watch and ponder what is going on Perceiving & Processing

  5. Style I • Perceive through concrete experience and process through reflective observation • View concrete situations form many points of view • Approach events as observer • Reflect on the situation rather than take action

  6. Style I cont’d • Enjoy generating a range of ideas • Work for harmony and build support • Have a concern for people • Engender trust • Favorite question when learning new information – Why?

  7. Style II • Perceive through abstract conceptualization • Process through reflective observation • Understand a wide range of information & good at putting it into a concise, logical form

  8. Style II cont’d • More interested in abstract ideas than people • Thorough, goal-oriented • Excel in traditional learning situation – chalk & talk • Favorite question – What?

  9. Style III • Perceive through abstract conceptualization • Process through active experimentation • Skilled at finding practical uses for ideas • Good problem solvers and decision makers

  10. Style III cont’d • Prefer working with things than with people • Plans and schedules are their thing • Favorite Question – How does this work?

  11. Style IV • Perceive information through concrete experience • Process new learning through active experimentation • Learn from “hands-on” experiences

  12. Style IV cont’d • Enjoy new and challenging experiences • Listen more to their ‘gut’ feelings than any logical analysis • Risk takers • Not fazed by new people or situations • Favorite question – What if?

  13. How to use our learning styles • Recognize our own styles and capitalize on the strengths we already have • Extend our success by exploring other learning styles

  14. How to use our learning styles cont’d • Consciously choose to use the characteristics of each style by asking ourselves four questions:

  15. How to use our learning styles cont’d • Why is it important to my education that I learn this? • What are the important concepts and facts I need to learn in mastering this information?

  16. How to use our learning styles cont’d • How can I try this out or practice this new idea to see if it makes sense for my life today? • What if this idea can be extended more broadly to other situations in my life?

  17. Reference: Ellis, D. (1994) Becoming a master student (7th ed) Rapid City, SD. Haughton Mifflin

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