Transcript learningstyles - Insight Christian Ministries

Leaders tend to teach in the
style they use to learn.
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On a rainy afternoon, would you rather
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watch a movie or video?
read a book?
play a board game with someone?
walk in the rain?
write e-mails or a letter?
In learning new material, would you rather
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hear a lecture on the topic?
read the material alone?
take notes as you study the material?
listen to music as you study?
talk about it with a small group?
Your choices offer clues about your learning style.
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• Most people have two or three preferred
learning styles. You use these most frequently.
• You can develop a new teaching-learning
style.
For example, many people develop the ability to learn
through lecture (a LOGICAL learning method),
because it is commonly used in business, training
workshops, worship, and in other areas of life.
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• Many leaders stay in their comfort zone and
teach the way they learn.
• Often leaders assume everyone learns in the
same way they do.
• This leaves learners adjusting to the leader,
rather than the leader engaging learners
where the learner feels comfortable.
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Want to know what another’s learning style is?
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Watch what a person does during leisure time.
• Inside activity
• Active
• Alone
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• Outside activity
• Quiet
• With others
Notice how the person delivers information.
• Draws pictures
• Quick & to the point
• Stands or sits still
• Writes out directions
• In elaborate detail
• Talks with the hands
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Watch how a person takes in information.
• Listens politely
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• Asks questions
• Prefers solitude
• Doodles or
stares off
• Prefers noisy environment
• Repeats information verbally
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See how each learning style relates to a
teaching method.
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LOGICAL––Change several facts in a familiar
Bible story. Hand out the story , directing learners
to correct the wrong facts. (As an example, In
those days Caesar Antichrist issued a degree that
a census. . . .) Let them compare their corrections
to the story in the Bible.
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MUSICAL––Direct learners to write new lyrics
to a familiar Christian chorus or hymn tune using
themes from the session’s Bible study.
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NATURAL––Show a nature video, with the audio
turned off, as you read Genesis 1 aloud.
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REFLECTIVE––Tell learners to complete openended statements by supplying their own feelings
and thoughts. (As an example, If I had been the
blind man Jesus healed, I would have . . . )
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RELATIONAL––Direct learners to work in small
teams to plan and carry out person-on-the-street
interviews with witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection.
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VERBAL––Read a familiar Bible story adding in
cheers, boos, and hisses at appropriate places in the
story.
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VISUAL––Use flimsy paper plates to create
masks. Direct learners to use one side to express
how they feel the world sees them and the other
side to express how they really think they are. Let
students walk around reading each others’ masks
with first one side and then the other displayed.
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Others’ Styles
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Logical learners like to solve problems.
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Logical learners prefer to do their own
research.
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Logical learners are good at organizing.
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Musical learners usually have a good
sense of rhythm and pitch.
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Musical learners feel the emotions of
music.
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Musical learners may listen to music
while doing other activities.
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Natural learners feel most comfortable
outside.
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Natural learners excel in the sciences.
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Natural learners see beauty even in the
destructive side of nature.
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Reflective learners prefer to learn alone.
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Reflective learners are usually selfmotivated.
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When reflective learners share, their
ideas are usually unique.
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Relational learners like group learning
activities.
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Relational learners are good communicators, often using expressive body
language.
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Relational learners work well with others.
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Verbal learners gain information
through hearing.
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Verbal learners hear words in their
minds.
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Verbal learners like word games.
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Visual learners learn best by seeing.
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When reading or hearing about an
event, visual learners see mental
images.
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Visual learners enjoy films, tables or
charts, jigsaw puzzles, and cartoons.
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1. True / False – Leaders tend to teach in the
style that their learners learn.
2. There are _______ teaching-learning styles.
3. Most people have ________ teaching-learning
styles.
4. You can determine a person’s learning style
by __________________.
5. True / False – For the VISUAL learner, use
rhymes and word games.
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