A Personal Reflective Paper On Adult Education Sandra McCoy AET/505 - FOUNDATIONS OF ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING Instructor: RICHARD HERRING November 30‚ 2013 A Personal Reflective Paper As I look back over the years I thought about my position as an educator in the early 1990’s. I taught adults 18 years and older typing and introduction to computers at Barclay Career Center in Jacksonville‚ Florida for three
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Theory of Learning Makhya Curtis 11/28/13 INFT101/ Scholarly Writing The developing brain has been a ground breaking field of study in the past decade. Advances in physiological research give insight into how the brain learns throughout the different developmental stages. Educators previously measured intellectual ability through a single factor called the “G” factor. In 1983 Howard Gardner proposed a theory of learning that involved multiple ways of learning called
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Sequential learning learn things from previous experiences. They tend to figure out difficult problems from what they learned already. They follow logical pathways to find conclusions. They learn from putting the pieces of the puzzle together Global learners learn things all over the place. They absorb material randomly. They solve difficult problems very quickly but struggle with coming up with an explanation. Even if they understand they can’t relate small details. Active learners tend to learn
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Learning Styles Karen Dunning Coll 100 I believe everyone of us has a very individual learning style just as we all have very different personalities and upbringings. We all learn in different ways and have different needs to be able to learn. Some of us do better in a group setting to learn while others need to be alone. Some do better with the material they are trying to learn in print in front of them while others do better to listen to the material being presented to them. Some
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Reflection on my learning styles Learning styles are the different ways people learn and how they approach information. Everyone learn in their own specific way‚ although we all share some similarities in the way we learn‚ be it patterns‚ technique‚ preferences etc. One theorist called David Kolb published his learning styles in 1984. Kolb created a four stage learning style called ’The experiential learning style’. This includes: Concrete Experience (doing/having an experience)‚ Reflective Observation
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In our study skills lesson this week we considered learning styles. We looked in particular at the honey and Mumford learning styles questionnaire to discover how it affects us in education. I have noticed that during group work i tend to discredit other people points quite quickly if i don’t agree. In this week lesson we had the chance to find out four different learning styles. First learning style is activists. These people tend to attempt the challenges of new experiences. They are enthusiastic
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of learning styles. By taking a learning styles quiz‚ I found out that I am an auditory learner. This means I do best learning by hearing and listening. Now knowing that I am an auditory learner I can discover new techniques that will help me be more attentive and I can expand myself as a learner. First‚ discovering new techniques as an auditory learner to be more attentive is easy. I was not surprised when I saw the list of usual things auditory learns do. I felt as if the learning style I was
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Web Assignment #3- Learning Styles (RESUBMISSION) Antoinette Gentile 260537380 EDPI 341: Instruction in Inclusive Schools Professor G. Scott Conrod McGill University Tuesday‚ October 22nd‚ 2013 Nowadays‚ in the field of education‚ it is pretty well established that all students learn differently. While some may be visual learners‚ others can be auditory learner or kinesthetic learners…etc. The list of
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should analyze quantitative date‚ and build conceptual models. One way I can develop skills in all four learning modes is to get together with people who both complement and challenge me. I wrote a paper on the multiple intelligences indicated by Howard Gardner in a previous class and found it very interesting. It is important to assess a combination of skills that may identify the characteristics of individual talents. The intelligences refer to human abilities‚ talents or mental skills that
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Learning Styles EDU382 Barbara Henry 6-3-13 Grade: 1st Topic: Healthy food choices/food pyramid Goal of the lesson: The goal for this lesson is that students will learn how to pick healthy foods and why it is important to eat healthy. Assessments: Formative- Squaring off Formative- Draw it! Formative- Pin the food on the pyramid Summative- Written test Squaring off is a formative assessment that can be great for students of several learning styles. To complete this exercise I
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