Vark Learning Style Reflection Paper
By taking the VARK Learning Style Questionnaire and the Teacher Perspective Inventory (TPI) I have once again been reassured that you can always benefit from being assessed. From these assessments I have found both my areas of strength and my areas of weakness. With this information I can prepare my lesson plans to focus on my strengths and at the same time add in the areas that I need to improve on. An effective classroom teacher builds off their strengths and address their weaknesses. My results of the VARK Learning Style Questionnaire showed that I am primarily a kinesthetic with a score of 13, average in visual (7) and aural (6), with an extremely low score of 1 in reading and writing. Having a strong score in kinesthetic means that I
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For example, since I am a hands-on learner, the odds of my lesson being in the form of a lecture are low. If I do not learn well from that setting most likely I am not going to expect my students to learn from that setting. As a future educator, I hope to fill my classroom with an abundance of hands-on activities that students will be able to apply to real life situations. One challenge that I can take from my VARK results is incorporating more reading and writing into my lessons. A lot of people have an average or a high score in reading and writing, therefore it would benefit my students to incorporate this particular learning style even though it is not a strong point for me. My Teacher Perspective Inventory (TPI) assessed my teaching style rather than my individual learning style. My results showed that I was dominant in nurturing (41), average in apprenticeship (39), development (37), and transmission (35), and recessive in social reform (32). By analyzing my results I know that my dominant score in nurturing means that my students will feel comfortable giving their best effort and that I support them in their learning. My recessive score in social reform tells me that I don’t strive for my students to change their opinions or the opinions of
For example, since I am a hands-on learner, the odds of my lesson being in the form of a lecture are low. If I do not learn well from that setting most likely I am not going to expect my students to learn from that setting. As a future educator, I hope to fill my classroom with an abundance of hands-on activities that students will be able to apply to real life situations. One challenge that I can take from my VARK results is incorporating more reading and writing into my lessons. A lot of people have an average or a high score in reading and writing, therefore it would benefit my students to incorporate this particular learning style even though it is not a strong point for me. My Teacher Perspective Inventory (TPI) assessed my teaching style rather than my individual learning style. My results showed that I was dominant in nurturing (41), average in apprenticeship (39), development (37), and transmission (35), and recessive in social reform (32). By analyzing my results I know that my dominant score in nurturing means that my students will feel comfortable giving their best effort and that I support them in their learning. My recessive score in social reform tells me that I don’t strive for my students to change their opinions or the opinions of