How Identifying Your Learning Style Can Enhance Student Learning

How Identifying Your Learning Style Can Enhance Student Learning

Sally Winterton, Ed. D.

West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Workshop Outline

I.Introductions

II.Workshop Objectives

III.Definition and Research

A.What are Learning Styles?

B.Research

IV.Learning Styles Models

A.Carbo, Reading Style Inventory

B.Dunn & Dunn, Learning Style Inventory

C.Gregorc, Mindstyles

D.Kolb, LeaRniing Style Inventory

E.McCarthy, 4MAT

F.Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

G.Sternberg, Triarchtic Thinking

V.Identifying Your Style

A.Completion of the Style Delineator

B.Explanation of the each style

C.Exploring Students’ Styles

VI.QuestionsTeaching Strategies Categorized by Learning Styles

CS Provide A FrameworkAS Explain Why, help Focus

WorksheetsLecture

Outlines, ChartsText-Reference, Bibliographies

DemonstrationsTopic Outlines

Memory GamesNotetaking

Drill and PracticeResearch (written reports)

Hands-On-WorkInstructional A. V.

Practical ProblemsIndividualized Study/Time to Think

Doing TimelinesDebates

Realistic WritingProducing original research based ideas

Field TripsAnalysis

Information Search

Evaluation Evaluation

Objective testLengthy analytical essay

Application of a specific skillAnalyze an activity describing how the objective was illustrated

Teaching Strategies Categorized by Learning Styles (Continued)

CR-Option to Interject SelfAR- Personalize

BrainstormGroup Work (Cooperative Learning)

Problem SolvingMnemonics

ExperimentsVisual Thinking

Hands-On-ActivitiesHumor–Not Sarcasm

Mini-LectureMini-Lecture and Discussion

Games (competition) SimulationsInterpretive Writing or Drawing

Independent Study (Originality, Creative)Webbing

Graphic PresentationRole Play, Drama

WebbingAllow Creative Approach

Analogies

Evaluation Evaluation

Produce a ProductOral Discussion or Performance

Open-ended ActivityShort Interpretative Essay

Selected Learning Styles Bibliography

American Association of School Administrators. (1991). Learning Styles: Putting research and common sense into practice. Arlington, VA: Author.

Baron, Renee. (1998). What type am I? Discover who you really are. New York: Penguin Books.

Brandt, Ronald, S. (Ed.). (1990). Learning styles and the brain. Educational Leadership, 48(2).

Burke, Patricia, & Garger, Stephen. (1985). Marching to different drummers. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Butler, Kathleen. (1988). It's all in your mind.Columbia, CT: The Learner's Dimension.

Butler, Kathleen. (1986). Learning and teaching style.Columbia, CT: The Learner's Dimension.

Carbo, Marie, Dunn, R., & Dunn, K. (1986). Teaching students to read through their individual learning styles.New York: Prentice Hall.

Dunn, R., & Dunn, K., (1992). Teaching elementary students through their individual learning styles.New York: Allyn & Bacon.

Galloway, Charles, M. (Ed.). (1984). Matching teaching and learning styles. Theory Into Practice, 23(1).

Gregorc, Anthony. (1982). An adult's guide to style.Columbia, CT: Gregorc Associates, Inc.

Pierce, Howard. (1999). The owner’s manual for the brain: Everyday applications from mind-brain research. (2nd Ed.). Mariettta, GA: Bard Press.

Kiersey, David. & Bates, Marilyn. (1984). Please understand me.Del Mar, CA: Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.

Lawrence, Gordon.(1982). People types & tiger stripes.Gainesville, FL: Center for Applications of Psychological Types, Inc.

National Association of Secondary School Principals. (1979). Student learning styles.Reston, VA: Author.

National Association of Secondary School Principals. (1982). Student learning styles and brain behavior. Reston, VA: Author.

Sousa, David. (2001). How the brain learns.Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Sousa, David. (2001). How the special needs brain learns.

Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Svinicki, M. D., & Dixon, N. M. (1986). The Kolb model modified for classroom activities. College Teaching.35 (4), 141-146.