Wk. 2 Learning and Teaching Styles “In almost every actual well-designed study‚ Mr. Pashler and his colleagues write in their paper‚ ‘Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence‚’ the pattern is similar: For a given lesson‚ one instructional technique turns out to be optimal for all groups of students‚ even though students with certain learning styles may not love that technique.” (2009) I wanted to start this paper with this quote since it did involve some sort of evidence that teaching in one style
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Bill Fisher Preparing to teach in the lifelong sector Learning Styles- V A K VAK theory is widely recognised by teachers - particularly those who recommend accelerated learning techniques - but the idea that we receive information via different modes has been around considerably longer than that and can be traced back to the work of Grace Fernald ("Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects") who promoted kinaesthetic learning techniques; Samuel Orton’s work on dyslexia; Anna Gillingham’s subsequent
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LEARNING STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE Adapted from FEDA Project (RP M132 H) 1998 This questionnaire will help you to discover the way you learn best: visual‚ audio or practical. You may show a strong preference for one learning style and‚ if so‚ you can become a more effective learner by developing the alternative styles. • There are no right or wrong answers and there are no trick questions. • You can take as long as you need to complete the questionnaire. (It will probably take between
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What is a learning style? Well a learning style is the way a person tends to learn best. It involves your preferred method of taking in‚ organizing‚ and making sense of information‚ Lake Washington Institute of Technology (2012). Some people prefer to learn by doing and touching‚ others prefer to learn by seeing‚ or by hearing the information. Still others learn using more than one learning style. If a person was interested in finding out what their particular learning style is would be to take
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Kinesthetic Learning There are different styles a student can use to study and learn. Although most have used the procrastination style‚ which was not covered on the VARK questionnaire‚ consisting of all day and night cramming before the test. Everybody knows that the procrastination style is one of the worst ways to study and comes with the stress and anxiety. After taking the VARK questionnaire the style that best fit my study habits was kinesthetic. Kinesthetic learning revolves around hands
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A Review of Multimodal Learning Style and Strategies The multimodal learning style is highly adaptive and is the most common type of learning style. It can encompass a strong preference two or more of the styles‚ or an equal preference for all of the 4 learning styles: aural‚ visual‚ read/write and kinesthetic. According to Fleming‚ students who prefer the multimodal learning style tend to fall into two categories: the context specific approach and the whole-sense approach. (Fleming‚ 2011‚ para
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Learning Styles and Theories There are multiple learning styles and theories that apply to individuals in multiple ways. The VARK learning style that my analysis revealed is read/write according to the questionnaire by Fleming (2001-2014). This categorization of my learning style compliments me well and I definitely agree that actually seeing the information spelled out in front of me allows me to better understand the information. The two learning theories that relate to my VARK learning style
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VARK: Learning Style Analysis Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion 429-V Professor O’Mara May 22‚ 2013 VARK: Learning Style Analysis A learning style is your preferred way of learning so many ways of learning and what about teaching? VARK identifies four learning styles‚ V-visual‚ A-aural/auditory‚ R-read/write‚ and K-kinesthetic this analysis was created by Neil Fleming and is a set of 16 questions answers are used to create a profile of each participants learning style
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The study was conducted to determine the dominant learning styles of science students in Gubat national High School during the school year 2008 – 2009. Specifically‚ it sought answer the following questions:1. What are the dominant learning styles of the science students in each year level?2. Is there a difference in the learning styles of the science student?3. What are the activities proposed to suit for the dominant learning styles of the science students? The descriptive method was
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Learning Style Inventory Student Name Institution Learning styles determine how effective a student will be receptive to instructions from the teacher or content from educative material. Ideally‚ scientists have proposed three main types of learning styles common among students: auditory‚ visual‚ and tactile. Consequently‚ a student can either possess only one style of learning or have a combination of any of the three learning styles. For instance‚ many psychological and human behavior
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