LEARNING STYLES 1.5 Application of Learning Styles in Teaching and Learning Hillary Crissinger, M.A.& Doctoral candidate in Special Education

Presenter  I am Hillary Crissinger, Charter Schools Resource Specialist servicing the learning disabled population attending charter programs and other duties as assigned.  My address is

Agenda  Introduction  Ice Breaker  Learning Styles Inventory  Learning Styles 101 review  What is your learning style?  Learning Style groups creates a lesson using their best modality.  They present it to the other members of their group.  Using the powers of your own observation skills to understand learning styles.  Please turn off your cell phone.

Ice Breaker  Everyone line up by height and tell the group where they grew up.  Tell one detail about the day your were born.

What is your learning style?

Kolb’s approach

Where do you think ?  Turn to a partner at your table and share where you fit into the Kolb schematic.  Tell your partner a story that supports this perception.

Learning Styles Inventory  Please fill out the VARK and compute the score.  After you compute your score and classify yourself as a certain type of learner fill out the label and place it on the left side of your chest.  This is you learner identity based on the VARK.  Please note where you might be on the Kolb.

VARK Model  Visual  Aural  Kinesthetic  Read /Write

Review of the VARK Ideas

Distribution of Learning Styles

Teams of 2 or 3  Partners are one type of learner.  Visual Team, Auditory Team, Read/Write team and Kinesthetic Team.  Teach an assignment in the way you learn best— such as visual learners present a concept visually and so on for the other styles.

Part 2  Pair up with another team and present to each other.  [Each Task will be punctuated by the sound of music.]  Keep in mind that this lesson uses your strength.

Break for 10 minutes

How do you assess your students?  Observation  Inventory } These tools are in the take  Interview away packet

Application  The goal of this activity is to observe a classroom and see which learning modalities are being used to teach the lesson.  We will be stopping the film at intervals to comment on it.

Process  Was that classroom auditory, kinesthetic, visual or read/ write?

Review

Culminating Activity  When I go back to the classroom how will this knowledge support my work?  Check your take away packet  Q & A  Thank you!!