Dustin Said:

Learning Styles questionnaire-does anyone have a link to a simple one?

We Answered:

This links looks as if it could be copied and printed as well as done online. It also has the results for you.

http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/ts/style.htm…


This one is very simple and could be done very easily if everyone has access to computers.

http://www.scholastic.com/familymatters/…

Daisy Said:

how can you know your learning style?

We Answered:

There is a learning style inventory by Kolb. Unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the inventory but I do know there's something since I did an essay on learning styles a year and a half ago. I recommend you do a search on Google Scholar which should be able to help you out as well.

Adam Said:

3 positives of observational investigation design?

We Answered:

There are nine different learning styles - you are only comparing 2

Word play

A student who plays with words is believed to have a linguistic intelligence. They enjoy words. Growing up they like to have stories read to them. They tend to have strong vocabulary, and linguistic skills. Young children might demand story after story at bedtime. Older children have strong vocabularies, love telling jokes and stories, and can get lost in books. If you give this person an opportunity to hear, see and say words associated with the desired outcome and they find the subject matter of interest they can effectively learn most topics. It is best to teach them using textbooks, written work, and using tests that emphasize their language skills.

Musical

The best asset for a person that plays with music is their ear. During the development stage, they do a lot of "banging." Hitting pots, and pans. Going to a piano and hitting or playing with the keys. Singing to themselves or just creating sounds around them. As older children they dislike cacophonous noise, or off -key singing. They are drawn to instruments, and have the ability to play them well. They also tend to enjoy listening to music. They excel at remembering melody, noticing the rhythms of life, and keeps perfect time. The critical aspect of their delivery system is getting new information through melodies, musical notation, or rhythm. In class they learn best when something is presented musically. Using original musicians work via audio means to present material. A possible way to utilize this is in history class play a composition, or song that relates to the current time period. Music can reflect society. Take Shakespearean folk songs, or Bob Dylan as an example. Like many works of similar eras their music reflects the world around them. In English analyzing song lyrics, as well as poetry, or literature, could help to reach this type of student.

The comparison of learning styles

Each student possesses different learning styles and different types of intelligence, but they possess them at different levels. In the classroom it is important to remember the nine principles and use them to address education to all students. In a classroom a variety of learning styles and types of intelligence are present. They are also present in students at different levels. This is why the principles of teaching are important. In order to help as many students excel as possible, variation of exercises, presentation, and examination is crucial, but too much variation hurts all of the students. They never have enough time to adapt to a particular teaching style before it changes. As White explained it is not always best to have a teaching style that matches a learning style. Innovation is important for that reason. It can help an Educator match his student’s learning style with an appropriate method of teaching. As a teacher experiments and tests different methods, exercises, techniques, or styles, they may find a style the best suits the majority of the class. Teachers and students limited on time and energy. That’s why some sacrifices have to be made. The object of education, in particular public education, is to help the largest number of students succeed and excel as possible. There isn’t enough time to work with everyone addressing individual needs. Teacher support is important for every student to succeed. In attempting various needs a teacher is inadvertently giving support, by giving as many students as possible to exhibit their strength. Also students, like anyone else appreciate validation. However a balance needs to be created, each principle, theory, and method has to find an appropriate level of application for each class. Sociologically classrooms can function as micro-societies, or even as organisms. Classes have unique group characteristics, as well as individual characteristics. Individual characteristics influence the group’s characteristic. In an organism, say a human being has a virus, a doctor doesn’t ignore it, because it could spread, nor does a doctor remove the infected limb. He works to cure the ailment. Teachers need to do the same. There is recognition of a problem, a hypothesis, research, an experiment, and a solution.

The site below will explain a lot to you about learning styles - have a look - it definitely will improve your report

Jordan Said:

Learning Styles: What to do with this info?

We Answered:

Lots of outside stuff related to bugs, plants, etc. Books on animals and biology and astronomy and anything nature-related in that way. You can create lapbooks, find a book at the library on nature projects, create a terrarium...

Of course, since nature and doing stuff are strong things for him, then combining those for weaker areas could be useful--do school work outside (near a pond is a favourite around here--yes, I've got a gr. 2 naturalistic son as well!), which also gives freedom of movement and lots of spatial/visual input. You can have great discussions there, especially about internal and interpersonal things--connecting what goes on in nature with those types of things would help his ability with the weaker areas.

I feel like I'm losing focus and just kind of babbling. Keep in mind that these different intelligences are ways of identifying preferences and strengths in ourselves. With the strong ones, we can just engage in a lot of activities that are uniquely those areas (like bug watching, playing with a ball, etc.). With the weaker areas that are causing us problems, that's when you try to tie in some strengths so that it "clicks" better.

ADDED: An afterthought: these aren't learning styles per se; they are INTELLIGENCES, that is, areas of natural strength or thinking. The auditory/visual/kinesthetic/tactile are styles--these are approaches to learning, not specifically what's learned easiest. For example, one person with a logical/mathematical strength needs to see the problems to work them out whereas another person just needs to hear and it can work it out. The mathematical strength is still there; the style is how it "gets in", if you will.

ADDED: Wow, what a strange collection of thumbs downs!!! Totally unwarranted. Unfortunately, there are people out there who like to give thumbs down for the heck of it. Of course, I know I've at times given a thumbs down accidentally--you can't take back a thumbs down when you meant to click on the thumbs up!

Lorraine Said:

What's your learning style?

We Answered:

multi-modal. read/write and visual.

Andrew Said:

If you could change any aspect of the educational system, what would it be?

We Answered:

For me...I think there are some kids who are destined for college...and some that aren't. My son is a Sophomore in high school, and he has special needs, but is able to take regular high school classes (he's not that "special")...but there is no way he is destined for college....none. And there are other kids in the same boat....so I would like to see Trade School skills taught at the high school level.

Sure he can take some shop classes, but that's not enough. For instance, it would be better for him if he left high school right now and became an apprentice with a construction company...but he can't...he would literally have to drop out of high school to do it...even though they don't provide what he really needs...which is a skill so he can earn a real living...instead of having to settle for saying "would you like plastic or paper?"

Just like you said about biased testing (don't get me started), students are different...and not all of them learn in the same way or have the same goals in life.