This document discusses significant learning and teaching styles. It outlines Fink's taxonomy for significant learning, which builds on Bloom's taxonomy by adding additional domains like application and integration. The document also discusses different learning styles such as visual, auditory and kinesthetic styles. It examines how students prefer to process information and perceive information. Finally, it provides examples of direct, indirect and online activities that can promote active learning in the classroom.

1. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING We Are Teaching. Are They Learning? Patricia Casello D.C. Assistant Professor, NWHSU January 18, 2007

2. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING OUTLINE What is learning? Fink’s Taxonomy for Significant Learning Learning Styles Teaching Styles Activities That Promote Active Learning References

3. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING What Is Learning? Bloom’s Taxonomy states that learning takes place within three domains: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor

4. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING Dr. L. Dee Fink builds on that platform and adds the following to indicate Significant Learning (Fink’s Taxonomy): Foundational Knowledge Application Integration Human Dimension Caring Learning How To Learn

5. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING WHAT ARE LEARNING STYLES? Different approaches or ways of learning such as: Visual Auditory Kinesthetic

6. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING WHAT ARE YOUR PREFERRED LEARNING STYLES? Active ----------------------Passive Sensory---------------------Intuitive Visual-----------------------Verbal Sequential------------------Global

7. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING QUESTION: How do you prefer to process information? STYLES OF LEARNING: Actively – Through engagement in physical activity or discussion, working in groups Passively – Through introspection, prefer working along or with a single familiar partner

8. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING QUESTION: What type of information do you preferentially perceive? STYLES OF LEARNING: Sensory – Sights, sounds, physical sensations. concrete thinker, practical, orientated toward facts and procedures. Intuitive – Memories, ideas, insights. Abstract thinker, innovative, oriented toward theories and underlying meanings.

9. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING QUESTION: Through which modality is sensory information most effectively perceived? STYLES OF LEARNING: Visual – By pictures, diagrams, graphs, demonstrations Verbal – By sounds, written and spoken words and formulas

10. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING QUESTION: How do you progress toward understanding? Sequentially – In a logical progression of small incremental steps Globally – In large jumps, holistically

11. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING TEACHING STYLES Is Your Teaching Style Balanced? Does your classroom provide: Facts, predictability, repetition, memorization, and opportunity to connect what students are learning to practical life experience? AND Abstraction, theory, innovative thinking, imagination and variety?

12. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING Does your classroom provide: Pictures, diagrams, flow charts, graphs, and concept maps? AND Written and spoken explanations?

13. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING Does our classroom provide: Discussion, small group work, problem- solving activities? AND 1 minute papers, time for reflection, and the muddiest points?

14. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING Does your classroom provide: Linear progression of information? AND An overview of information prior to the smaller pieces? A time to connect the pieces together for students? Information that connects to other disciplines and subjects?

15. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING Multiple Activities That Promote: Active Learning Direct Indirect, Vicarious Online

16. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING DIRECT ACTIVITIES Getting information and ideas: Original data and sources Experience: Activities done in authentic settings and/or direct observation of phenomena Reflective Dialogue: Reflective thinking, journaling for self Live dialogue in class, online or out of class

17. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING INDIRECT, VICARIOUS ACTIVITIES Getting information and ideas: Secondary data and sources, lectures, textbooks Experience: Case studies, gaming, simulations, role playing Viewing or listening to stories, film, literature, or oral history Reflective Dialogue: Reflective thinking and journaling with self Live dialogue with others in class, online or out of class

18. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING ONLINE ACTIVITIES Getting Information and Ideas: Course web-sites, internet web-sites (i.e. journals) Experience: Students directly experience …(online concept testing, participation in a group or team activity) Students can engage in “indirect” experiences (view a film, read a case study) Reflective Dialogue: Various online dialogues such as e-mail, chat rooms, white boards and discussion boards/forums.

19. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING REFERENCES Web-sites: www.collab.org (Collaboration Project web-site) www.ou.edu/idp/significant (Dr. Fink’s taxonomy-in the handout)

20. SIGNIFICANT LEARNING Collaboration Project Professional Development Conference: Motivating Students for Better Retention, learning and Achievement November 17-18, 2006 Bloomington Presentations: Creating Significant Learning Experiences Through Integrated Course Design Stewart Ross, Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning , Minnesota State University, Mankato Building Motivation: Do You Have The Tools? Connie Evenson, Assistant professor, Department of Nursing, U of South Dakota Michelle Gierach, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, U of South Dakota The Road To Excellence: Creating Positive Learning Environments Heidi Johnson-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, U of SD Susan Reinhart, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, U of SD Dawn Warren, Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, U of SD Debate This! Critical Thinking and Content and Mastery Part 2 Dean Pape, Assistant Professor of Communication, Ripon College