This document discusses learning styles and how understanding one's own dominant learning style can help improve learning. It identifies four main learning styles: visual, auditory, tactile/kinesthetic, and individual vs group learner. Students take a quiz to determine their dominant learning style, then work in groups with others of the same learning style to discuss challenges they face and strategies teachers and themselves can use to address those challenges. They present their findings to the class.

1. Learning Styles Mrs. DeBall AVID Coordinator December 2007

2. Outcome: Ability to determine different learning styles Determine if you have a dominant learning style Identify common classroom activities & how they relate to different learning styles Develop strategies to compensate when your learning style is not being addressed

3. DO NOTs: Blame your teacher if your learning style is not being addressed INSTEAD: Learn to cope & make learning meaningful for YOU!

4. QuickWrite In your AVID NB: Write for 4 minutes about the following questions: What does it mean to “learn how to learn?” What skills help us to be better learners? What do we need to learn about ourselves to make us better learners?

5. What makes it easy or difficult to learn?

6. This leads us to: What is a learning style?

7. What is YOUR learning style? So, what did you come up with?

8. So, what is what? Let's talk about specifics... Take CN in your AVID NB on all learning styles

9. Visual Learn through seeing Need to see teacher's body language & expressions Prefer sitting in front Think in pictures Take detailed notes

10. Auditory Learn through listening Learn best: Verbal lectures, discussions, talking things through Written information may have little meaning until it is heard benefit from reading text aloud

11. Tactile / Kinesthetic Learn through , moving, doing and touching... Learn best through a hands-on approach Actively explore physical world around them Find it hard to sit still for long periods May become distracted by their need for activity and exploration

12. Individual Learner prefers to work alone

13. Group Learner prefers to work in a group of people

14. Oral Learner prefers to talk about findings/answers

15. Written Learner prefers to write out answers, rather than discussing

16. Now that you know what your learning style is... How does this impact your learning? How can you use this information in the classroom? What do you think this means? Write down as a QuickWrite...

17. Get into groups… Find people who share your learning style… Select one person to be the recorder Select one person to be the reporter Answer the following questions on the paper provided: What strategies can teachers use to help us as visual/ auditory/tactile learners? What learning situations are particularly challenging for us? What learning situations are particularly easy for us? What strategies can we use to take responsibility for our learning?

18. Report out: Make a poster, elect an Artist (or 2) to create it; Reporter, be ready!

19. Who's going first to share your group's poster?

20. In your learning style group: look @ your classroom observations...

21. Choose one: Choose one activity to focus on, from what you all observed in classes How is this a challenge for our learning style? List three strategies to compensate/overcome on a NEW poster