learning styles...

5/28/2002: TOT Day 1

Learning Styles

i prefer to learn by doing, thinking through concepts and trying things out myself. so that makes me a...

• type 4: common sense learner
  
• type 1: imaginative learner
  
• type 2: analytical learner
  
• type 3: dynamic learner
  

Catering to different learners...

1. imaginative – drawing/music/poetry
2. analytical – theory... the rules or grammar
3. dynamic – talking, work and/or movement
4. common sense – examples and real life application

...so people process in different ways and someone drawing or talking to themselves may be actively learning in their own style:

• students learn in their own style 25%
• schools validate the way type 2s learn
• ~70% of learners are not type 2

Four styles can correlate to 4 stages of a lesson:

1. motivation (imaginative): who are my students?
2. information (analytic): what am i going to teach?
3. practice (common sense): how am i going to teach?
4. application (dynamic): have i reached my goals?

...therefore, if lesson plans incorporate these 4 stages you will (more or less) cater to the 4 styles of learning.

Teaching is...
-art... style
-science... methodology
-skill... must be done

now... how do we introduce learning styles to PCTs? and how do we apply it in training the PCTs?