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DIAGNOSING LEARNING STYLE Handout online ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGICAL PHYSICAL COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL: your external surroundings ENVIRONMENTAL ELEMENTS Your preferences about: AMOUNT OF SOUND TYPE/ AMOUNT OF LIGHT TEMPERATURE FURNITURE PSYCHOLOGICAL: your emotional preferences PSYCHOLOGICAL STYLE THE PROFESSOR ENCOURAGES STUDENTS’: • competition • cooperation THE PROFESSOR and STUDENT INDEPENDENCE: • Expects students to ask for help • Guides students step by step THE PROFESSOR STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF: • Individual effort • Group effort SOCIOLOGICAL: your interactions with people You like to learn: BY YOURSELF IN A PAIR WITH A GROUP WITH AN EXPERT PHYSICAL: your personal needs PHYSICAL STYLE SENSES INTAKE TIME MOBILITY Your preferences: PERCEPTUAL (senses) INTAKE TIME MOBILITY WHEN GIVING DIRECTION, THE PROFESSOR: • “Tells” • “Shows” what to do what to do THE PROFESSOR and VISUAL AIDS: • uses often • uses rarely DURING CLASS THE PROFESSOR: • Mostly lectures • Mostly holds class discussion COGNITIVE You think: ANALYTICALLY (starting with the details) vs. GLOBALLY (starting with the big picture) Logical or intuitive? Or you think: INDUCTIVELY (specifically) vs. DEDUCTIVELY (generalizing) You react: REFLECTIVELY vs. SPONTANEOUSLY “impulsively” CEREBRAL PREFERENCE LEFT BRAIN vs. RIGHT BRAIN You process via: LEFT BRAIN (verbal, logical) vs. RIGHT BRAIN (visual, creative) LEFT BRAIN vs. RIGHT BRAIN •DIGITAL • KALEID COMPUTER OSCOPE SENSIBLE vs. CREATIVE LEFT HEMISPHERE RIGHT HEMISPHERE 1. INPUT 2. LANGUAGE 3. MEMORY 4. TESTS 5. PROCESSING 6. PERSUASION 7. METAPHORS 8. APPEARANCE 9. PLANNING 10.TIME 11. DECISIONMAKING 12. MEMORY 13. GESTURES Handout online 1. RECEIVING • prefers • prefers visual, verbal information tactile information 2. LANGUAGE • responds to • responds word’s tone, to word’s pitch, meaning emotional content Oops! 3. MEMORY • recalls facts, dates • recalls faces, images 4. TESTING • better at multiplechoice tests • better at essay exams 5. PROCESSING • wants info in sequence, step-bystep • wants info in chunks, patterns, as a whole 6. PERSUASION • responds to logical appeals • responds to emotional appeals 7. METAPHORS • rarely uses metaphor • frequently uses metaphors APPEARANCE 8. APPEARANCE • looks neat, straight, organized • looks disorganized, untidy 9. PLANNING • structured, • fluid, plans spontaneous ahead ad libs 10. TIME • punctual, • little with a sense of strong time sense of time 11. DECISIONMAKING • reflective: considers decisions • spontaneous: quick decisions 12. MEMORY • recalls people’s names • recalls people’s faces 13. GESTURES • speaks with few gestures • gestures when speaking seeing smelling hearing touching doing Sensory Preferences • Seeing – visual channel • Hearing – auditory channel • Doing – haptic/ kinesthetic and tactile channel Handout online VISUAL total _______ AUDITORY total _______ HAPTIC total _______ VISUAL LEARNERS AUDITORY LEARNERS HAPTIC LEARNERS Handout online VISUAL LEARNERS You will usually learn better when you read or SEE information; your textbooks will be easier than straight lectures. Write down things you want to remember. AUDITORY LEARNERS You will usually learn better when information comes through your ears - you need to HEAR information; you will probably do better in lecture situations than in those requiring a lot of reading. Recite aloud things you want to remember. HAPTIC LEARNERS You will usually learn better when you’re able to DO: experience, experiment, and move. Get active with things you want to remember WHERE TO SIT Sit right up front in a classroom to stay connected and reduce opportunities to “zone out” closeness to the professor can be very energizing. Sit away from distractions. BEGINNING A READING ASSIGNMENT Start actively previewing a chapter before reading by first highlighting the title and headings, by numbering the headings and subheadings, by marking or captioning pictures, charts, maps and diagrams by taking end-of-chapter quizzes to get your momentum going. USING HIGHLIGHTING Use color and visual highlighting to mark up textbooks, handouts, and lecture notes. Write or diagram main points in the margin if there’s room. MEMORIZING Squeeze a tennis ball, spin a yoyo, chew gum, doodle, etc. while reading. When you have to memorize something, pace or walk around while reciting to yourself, looking at a list or index cards. TO HAVE NOISE OR NOT TO HAVE NOISE Music or white noise in the background can help siphon off distracting energy.