Learning+&+Teaching+Styles

//Hook to Engage: (The brain loves novelty...)// Instructional Strategy: Mystery  Gadgets will be placed on each table for an activity later in the morning.

//Creating Meaning & Relevance:// In his book, //Learning by Heart// (Jossey-Bass, 2001), Roland Barth states, “…the most important feature of the job description for each of us educators, is to discover and provide the conditions under which people’s learning curves go off the chart. Sometimes it’s other people’s learning curves: those of students, teachers, parents, administrators. But at all times it is our own learning curve” (p.11).

Under what conditions does your learning curve go off the chart? What do you know about yourself as a learner? The following resource developed by the University of Illinois, provides an opportunity for you to think about your learning style and preference for information acquisition. This resource provides links to sites with interactive quizes that assess your learning style or multiple intelligence. What are the implications for you as a learner in this class and in other areas of your personal and professional learning? What implications does this have for you as an educator working with students, teachers, colleagues, or employees?

Are you an active or reflective learner? sensing or intuitive? visual or verbal? sequential or global? Let's find out by completing an online quiz from North Carolina State University. Save your results as a word document and email it to yourself or put it on your flash drive. [|Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire Online Quiz]

 ACTIVITY: //Personal Connections (Emotion)// Instructional Strategy: Quick Write (2 minute reflective writing time to be done individually)    My learning style is....and I understand that my teaching will reflect this by.....

Instructional Strategy: Cooperative Groups (Homogeneous): Arrange yourself in homogeneous groups and discuss possible teaching strategies that help you to learn as that specific kind of learner. You will need the following roles in your cooperative group: Recorder, reporter, timekeeper, taskminder.

Another perspective is to examine ourselves through MI theory: [|Multiple Intelligences Eight Styles of Learning] Check out: [|Learning Styles and the Online Environment]