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Title: Learning Styles


1
Learning Styles
  • Nigel Scarborough
  • August 2007

2
Session Aims
  • The learning cycle
  • VARK
  • Honey Mumford Learning Styles
  • How well do they fit?
  • How can we use this knowledge?
  • What else?

3
Two types of learning
  • Formal learning (?Surface)
  • Books
  • Lectures
  • Experiential learning (?Deep)
  • Learning through doing
  • Learning from life
  • Application of formal learning

4
The Learning Cycle
  • Stage 1
  • Having an experience
  • Stage 4 Stage 2
  • Planning the next steps Reviewing the
    experience
  • Stage 3
  • Concluding from the experience

5
VARK
  • Visual
  • Aural
  • Read/Write
  • Kinaesthetic
  • For the moment keep your preferred style to
    yourself!

6
The four styles Honey and Mumford
  • Activists
  • Reflectors
  • Theorists
  • Pragmatists

7
Activists like
  • To think on their feet
  • To have short sessions
  • Plenty of variety
  • Opportunity to initiate
  • To participate and have fun

8
Reflectors like.
  • To think before acting
  • Thorough preparation
  • To research and evaluate
  • To make decisions in their own time
  • To listen and observe

9
Theorists like
  • Concepts and models
  • To see the overall picture
  • To feel intellectually stretched
  • Structure and clear objectives
  • Logical presentation of ideas

10
Pragmatists like.
  • To see the relevance of their work
  • To gain practical advantage from learning
  • Credible role models
  • Proven techniques
  • Activities to be real

11
The task
  • In pairs
  • Think of a learning episode
  • Describe it to your partner
  • Partner tries to deduce what type of learner you
    are

12
Using our Learning Styles
  • How well does this fit our self picture?
  • Choosing activities to fit our style
  • How does this impact on your training programme?
  • Improving our weaker areas?
  • Why?
  • How?

13
Task
  • Plan one way of improving a weaker area
  • Divide into groups by dominant style
  • Plan one activity each (but may be same)
  • Make it SMART
  • Specific
  • Measurable
  • Achievable
  • Realistic
  • Timely

14
Homework
  • Do the Honey and Mumford questionnaire
  • Look at the VARK website and questionnaire again
  • www.vark-learn.com
  • Share with your trainer and other registrars in
    your locality

15
Memo to teachers
  • Teach me my most difficult concepts in my
    preferred style.Let me explore my easiest
    concepts in a different style.Just don't teach
    me all the time in your preferred styleand think
    I'm not capable of learning.
  • Virleen M. Carlson
  • Centre for Learning and Teaching, Cornell
    University, USA.  
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