Introduction to Learning Styles

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Introduction to Learning Styles

• Gifted Methods Materials
• Dr(s). Jennifer Scrivner Georgann Toop

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Overview of PerceptionSensing vs. Intuition

• Sensing
• Employs the 5 senses to gather information
• Characterize and clarify information
• Like to live and work in the here and now
• Motivated by practicality and usefulness
• Intuition
• More abstract, big concepts
• Helps the mind understand, thinks in
  generalizations
• Insight to patterns meaning behind the details
• Motivated by flexibility and freedom
• (Hanson, Silver Strong, 2000)

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Overview of JudgmentThinking vs. Feeling

• Thinking
• Objectivity is the hallmark of the thinking
  function
• Logic, reason, and evidence
• analysis allowing connective logic
• Feeling
• Subjective rather than objective
• Feelers look for human connections that make life
  rich and meaningful
• Development of personal values and emotional
  relationships
• (Hanson, Silver Strong, 2000)

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Who remembers Star Trek?

• Spock thinking
• Captain Kirk intuition
• Scotty sensing
• Bones - feeling

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Seinfeld Generation

• Jerry obsession with analyzing everything
  thinking
• Kramers off the wall plans and ideas
  intuition
• Georges procedural rigidity sensing
• Elaines burning need to be loved and
  appreciated -- feeling

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From Function to Style

• Using the Silver and Hanson (1998) design as
  our basis, we will explore the four basic
  quadrants that form the process oriented
  learning-style model.

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Sensing-Thinking Learners(Mastery Learners) ST

• Realistic, practical, and matter of fact
• sensing Thinkers are efficient and results
  oriented, preferring action to words, and
  involvement to theory. They have high energy
  levels for doing things that are pragmatic,
  logical, and useful.

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ST Approach to Learning

• Like to complete work in an organized and
  efficient manner
• Prefer hands-on and technical learning
• Focus more on things than ideas and people
• Need to be kept busy, require immediate feedback
• Need to be active, to be doing, to see tangible
  results from their efforts
• What? How?
• Prefer stop by stop directions
• Prefer assignments that have a right or wrong
  response rather than open ended ones or
  interpretive ones
• Highly motivated by competition, learning games,
  gold stars, grades

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Intuitive-Thinking LearnersUnderstanding
Learners (NT)

• Theoretical, intellectual, and knowledge oriented
• Intuitive thinkers prefer to be challenged
  intellectually and to think things through for
  themselves. They are curious about ideas, have a
  tolerance for theory, a taste for complex
  problems, and a concern for long range
  consequences

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NT Approach to Learning

• Logical, organized, systematic fashion, bringing
  organization and structure to people and things
• Like to plan and organize ideas and determine
  resources prior to beganning work on an
  assignment
• Like to work independently or with other NTs and
  require little feedback until the work job is
  completed
• They do not like to be pressed for time when
  working on something of interest time is
  meaningless
• Very patience and persistent in completing
  difficult tasks
• Attack problems by breaking them down
• Like to reason things out and to look for logical
  relationships
• Cause-effect thought processing
• Ask why? And their questions can be provocative
• Concerned about relevance and meaning
• Avid readers
• Learning is vicarious therefore abstract
  symbols, formulae, technical illustrations are
  preferred sources for collecting data

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Intuitive Feeling Learners(Self Expressive
Learners (NF)

• Curious, insightful, and imaginative
• Intuitive Feelers are the ones who dare to
  dream, are committed to their values, are open to
  alternatives, and are constantly searching for
  new and unusual ways to express themselves.

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NF Approach to Learning

• Eager to explore ideas
• Turned off by routine or rote assignments
• Prefer opened questionswhat would happen if?
• Highly motivated by their own interest
• Things of interest will be done inventively and
  well. Things they do not like may be done
• Feelers operate by an internal clock and
  therefore often feel constrained by rules
• Independent and non-conforming they do not fear
  being different
• Sensitive to beauty and aesthetic characteristics
• Prefer not to follow step by step procedures
• Able to take intuitive leaps. trust their own
  insights
• Flexible and highly adaptable
• Prefer dynamic environments with many resources
  and materials
• Work is sometimes scattered and may look chaotic
  to STs and NTs
• Love to multi-task and start more projects than
  they can finish
• Look for unique and creative ways to express
  themselves

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Sensing Feeling Learners(Interpersonal Learners
SF)

• Sociable, friendly, and interpersonally oriented
• Sensing Feeling learners are sensitive to
  peoples feelings their own and others. They
  prefer to learn about things that directly affect
  peoples lives, rather than impersonal facts and
  theories.

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SF Approach to Learning

• Take a personal approach to learning
• Spontaneous and emotionally attached to the
  learning
• Interested in people and like to listen and talk
  about people/feelings
• Enjoy personal attention
• Need to feel relaxed, comfortable and enjoy
  themselves while they learn
• Like think out loud, to work with others and need
  to be recognized
• Prefer cooperation to competition and need
  reassurance or praise
• Complete task as a means of pleasing someone
  rather than because they are interested in the
  task
• Of what value is this to me? Look for connections
  between learning and personal experience
• Little distinction between school and life and
  when school becomes far removed from human
  content and real life issues they may become
  bored or disengaged

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