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Learning Styles and Teaching
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Learning Styles and Teaching
How a person learns or recalls information
They come from the students genes, experiences, surroundings, and the society
to teach better teachers should learn how to act, plan, observe and reflect
- students learn better when the teacher implements classes with their style
- students´ self-steem improves, that helps with their learning and if they are feeling bored, this will make them feel interested in classes again
- the teacher-student relationship can improve
kinds of learning styles
- The four modalitites
- visual-learn by seeing
- auditory-learn by hearing
- Kinaesthetic- learn by moving
- tactile-learn by touching
- Field dependent vs Field independent
- Field Independent-they like to do activities on their own, and is difficult for them to work with others
- Field dependent-like to work with others relying on their ideas when doing activities
- Left-brained dominated vs right-brained dominated
- left-brained-they tend to be analytical, rely on language in thinking, plan and organized
- right-brained-are very creative, like to draw , intuitive
- McCarthy´s learning styles
- Innovative learner-like cooperative activities because they love social interaction
- Analytic learner-like to reflect and know important things
- common sense learner-like to find solutions and learn by moving
- Dynamic learner-enthusiastic and adventurous
- The four modalitites
Teaching Methods and activitities for each learning style
- The four modalities
- Visual-Images
- Auditory-songs, Audios
- Kinaesthetic-physical activities
- tactile-board games, demonstration
- Field independent-- activities on their own vs Field dependent -cooperative activities
- Left-brained-provide instructions, let them discover right-brained-demonstrate, realia, drawing
- McCarthy´s learning styles
- Innovative-cooperative activities
- analytic-teach them the facts
- common sense-problem solving
- dynamic-challenging activities
- The four modalities
