2. Discovering Your Learning Styles and Preferences
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Discovering Your Learning Styles and Preferences

3. Three Cognitive Learning Styles
Cognitive Learning Styles refers to the general ways people prefer to have information presented in order to problem solve, process, learn, and remember new information.
Learning modalities refers to cognitive learning styles such as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.
Learning style preference indicates a tendency to use a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic modality when there is a choice of ways to learn and process new information.
Take Learning Styles Inventory

4. Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic Inventory Scoring and Discussion
Score Inventory to get Learning Style Preference

5. Characteristics of Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners
Visual Learners are learners who prefer to process and learn information in visual forms such as pictures, charts, lists, paragraphs, or other printed formats.
Auditory learners are learners who prefer to process and learn by hearing and discussing information.
Kinesthetic learners are learners who prefer to process and learn information through large and small muscle movements and hands-on experiences.

6. REVIEW: THREE COGNITIVE LEARNING STYLES
What are the three cognitive learning styles?
What are characteristics of each learning style preference?
What strategies work effectively for each learning style preference?
What are multisensory strategies and why are they powerful strategies?

7. Multisensory Learning Strategies
Benefits of Multisensory Learning Strategies
Boost memory
Stronger paths to long-term memory
Multiple ways to access and recall information
Designing Multisensory Learning Strategies
Visualizing
Verbalizing
Reciting
Developing muscle memory
Multisensory strategies are learning strategies that combine two or more modalities.
Visualizing is the process of speaking or reading out loud to activate the auditory channel and build auditory memory.
Verbalizing is the process of speaking or reading out loud to activate the auditory channel and build auditory memory.
Reciting is the process of explaining information out loud, in complete sentences, and in yVerbalizingour own words without looking at printed information.
Developing Muscle Memory is a kinesthetic process that involves performing multiple repetitions of steps or actions until the actions become automatic

8. Example: Solving a difficult Math problem
See-Say-Do-Strategy
Example: Solving a difficult Math problem
See: Read the math problem and examine the significant details
Say: Verbalize the steps for a solution.
Do: Copy the steps into your notes
See: Color-code each step.
Say: Recite the problem-solving steps for the problem.
Do: Rework the problem multiple times. Check your accuracy
See-Say-Do Strategy is multisensory learning strategy that involves visual, auditory, and kinesthetic actions or process.
Exercise 1.3 on Pg. 16: Textbook Case Studies

9. Multiple Intelligences
What are the names of the intelligences that show people’s potential to be “smart” in words, music, numbers, pictures, body, self, people, and nature?
How has the Theory of Multiple Intelligences influenced understanding and acknowledgment of individual differences, skills, abilities, and potential?

10. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

11. Personality Types- Core Building Blocks
Two Personality Preferences
Where do you focus your attention?
Extroversion
Introversion
How do you take in information?
Sensing
Intuition
How do you make decisions?
Thinking
Feeling
How do you approach or structure your life?
Judging
Perceiving

12. Where You Focus Your Attention: Extraversion - Introversion
Focus attention on the outer world
In the classroom:
Livens up the class with enthusiasm and energy
Talks freely and is eager to share information
Enjoys group work
Responds quickly to questions
Gets restless or impatient of class pace is too slow
Focus attention on the inner world of ideas, thoughts, and reflection
Quiet and reserved
Refrain from volunteering information/comments
Does not enjoy group work
Appreciates time to contemplate and then responds to questions cautiously
Feels uncomfortable if class pace is too fast

13. HOW YOU TAKE IN INFORMATION: SENSING – INTUITION
Sensing (S)
Intuition (N)
Tends to take in information through five senses. (Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Smell)
In the Classroom:
Favor Step-By-Step instruction
Prefer concrete facts and theories with practical applications and conclusions
See specific details before seeing the total picture
Tends to take in information by noting patterns, relationships, and sometimes hunches
Favor approaches with opportunities to explore new, innovated ways to receive info.
Enjoys experimenting with alternative ways to create solutions
Sees the “big picture” before focusing on the details

14. HOW YOU MAKE DECISIONS: THINKING - FEELING
Thinking (T)
Feeling (F)
Tends to make decisions based on logical analysis and cause-effect reasoning
In the classroom:
Make decisions based on known or proven details and established procedures
Use cause-effect thinking and an analytical approach to argue/debate ideas
Appreciates recognition for logical decision-making skills and competency
Tends to make decisions based on personal values, harmony, and compassion for others.
Places less emphasis on how decisions or outcomes will affect other people
Use personal values to argue/debate ideas and strive to create win-win situations
Appreciates being recognized as individuals and understood based on personal values and convictions

15. HOW YOU MAKE APPROACH OR STRUCTURE YOUR LIFE: JUDGING - PERCEIVING
Judging (J)
Perceiving (P)
Tends to approach and structure life in an orderly, structured, and systematic way.
In the classroom:
Favor organization, structure, and routines
Work best with clear expectations, deadlines, and schedules
Works steadily on an assignment until it is done to satisfaction
Goal-oriented
Tends to approach and structure life in flexible, spontaneous, and more open-ended way
Feel stifled by too much structure
Dislike using schedules
Works best with bursts of energy and when working under pressure and closer to deadlines
Open to new experiences and the unexpected