Planning Lessons to Capitalize on Learning Styles

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Planning Lessons to Capitalize on Learning Styles

• Connie Davis, Northern Colorado Literacy Resource
  Center nclrc_at_stvrain.k12.co.us
• Nadeen Lester, St. Vrain Valley Adult Education
  ntlester_at_comcast.net

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Learning Styles

• Cognitive, affective and physiological behaviors
• How learners perceive, interact with, and respond
  to the learning environment.
• Acquired biologically and developmentally and can
  be influenced through experience.

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Research

• Knowledge of learning styles can help both
  educators and learners improve their
  effectiveness. (Hotta Dover)
• Students learn more when information is presented
  in a variety of modes than when only a single
  mode is used. (Felder Henriques)

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Research

• Stress, frustration, and burnout may occur when
  students are subjected over extended periods of
  time to teaching styles inconsistent with their
  learning style preferences. (Smith Renzulli)

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3 types of learning styles

• Visual Learners
• Auditory Learners
• Kinesthetic Learners

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A Lesson with Visual Learners in Mind

• Reading Excerpt Two Mark Twain Editorials
• Objective Reading Rate Improvement
• Activity Pump It Up, pages 1 2

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A Lesson with Auditory Learners in Mind

• Lesson from NorthStar Listening Speaking,
  Basic/Low Intermediate
• Simple past tense, regular irregular forms
• Activity Thats Not What I Said, page 6

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A Lesson with Kinesthetic Learners in Mind

• Lesson from Contemporary English, Book 2
• Prepositions
• Activity The Bank Stops Here, page 10

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Your Ideas

• Ideas from professional experience
• Thoughts about future classes
• Comments

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Wrap Up

• Goal Include all 3 learning styles in our
  classes to obtain a balanced teaching style
• Resources
• Evaluations