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| Kajalben Gajera | |||||||||||||||||
| Understand Teaching Style to Improve Your Grades | |||||||||||||||||
| My grades will improve because I have methods for understanding my learning styles and my professor's teaching styles. | |||||||||||||||||
| According to the "Herrmann International" website, "The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument is the world's leading thinking styles assessment tool. It identifies your preferred approach to emotional, analytical, structural, and strategic thinking." Thinking is the act of reasoning from factual knowledge and or evidence. Thinking is to call to mind to remember to visualize and recall the images of what was once known to the mind. Thinking with pictures helps the learner deal with facts and knowledge, with memory and retrieval, with facts and thinking and with individual and social forms of learning. I learn best by intuition to create something new. Learning is a consequence of good thinking. | |||||||||||||||||
| If I am enthusiastic and feel good, I will learn. If the conditions are negative and I don't feel safe, learning will not take place. It is very important for me to feel relaxed and safe in class and school. Feeling threatened will shut down the learning process. Teachers can help students understand the influence that negative and positive emotions have on learning. Positive emotions such as excitement, enthusiasm and joy help process information and create permanent learning in the brain. Learning can not take place unless the learner feels safe. Stress and constant fear can interfere with the learning process. That's why it's important to feel good about learning. I learn best by trying new things. Whenever I want to do something for the first time, I am very happy and excited. Sometimes if it's new, and I have never seen it before, I need someone to do it for me, or I want them to teach me how to do it. But I usually like to try by myself. When I do something by myself without help, I feel really comfortable and relaxed. Innovation of any kind must be designed, and the design has to support human goals if it is going to be of any lasting value to the people who use it. We are all unique individuals. Each one of us has different habits, talents, knowledge, values, interests, and ways of expressing ourselves. And while we all have the capacity to be innovative, we approach innovation and change in different ways. | |||||||||||||||||
| The reason why it's so important that students take the VARK learning styles questionnaire is because if everyone knows how your brains processing information, you can help it by studying in the ways most conducive to you. The first of my four VARK learning styles is reading and writing. This type of learner style excels when they color notes and study sheets with highlighters. I process information best by working with it in hands on way. When it comes to words, I either have to write it or say it for it to stick. Sometimes I even walk around and talk. In other words, I can read a list of something silently a million times but unless I take it and do something with it. I share my learning best through essays, articles, papers and performances. | |||||||||||||||||
| The second of the four VARK learning styles is Aural. I want to hear a lesson out loud before I can truly begin to absorb the information; I prefer and respond better to hearing words than reading words. I also connect to all sounds and connect to non-verbal influence like music and other sounds that influence my thinking. When studying by myself, I talk out loud. I can get myself in a room where I won't be bothering anyone, and read my notes and textbook out loud. | |||||||||||||||||
| The third of the four VARK learning styles is kinesthetic. I am a real "Hand on" earner. I like to be a part of demonstrations, outdoor field work and lab work. I would much rather "Do" than sit and take notes. It's important for this type of learner to sit in the front of a classroom because it will help them to pay attention when a teacher is lecturing. I learn through moving, doing and touching. I touch even when the sign says, "Don't Touch." Kinesthetic learners want to sense the position and movement of what they are working on. Kinesthetic learners want to touch. "Enough talking and looking," they may say, "Let's work with this stuff." | |||||||||||||||||
| The last of the four VARK learning styles is visual. I prefer to always have a visual aid present during any presentation, lecture or study session. I learn best through videos, film, maps, diagrams and charts. I tend to think in images and convert concepts to pictures in my mind. Tools to life improvement will give you images, videos, and more to connect your visual learning to the material. I learn all at once, and when the light bulb goes on, the learning is permanent. I am a whole brained learner who needs to see the big picture first before I learn the details. | |||||||||||||||||
| My study skills professor's teaching style is multi-modal. He gives us to do journals for homework. He gives quizzes once or twice a week. He teaches how to take notes. He gives lecture a lot in the class. He asks questions and tries us to be curious. He reads a story from textbook. He gives us to do quiz, and shows video in the class. During watching video, he wants us to write "Quotes." He tells us to email. He gives to do a puzzle in the group, and he wants us to work in the group. He teaches a lot of different things. He mostly explains, and writes on the board, and he shows funny pictures in the beginning of class to be in a good mood. | |||||||||||||||||
| My reading professor's teaching style is also multi-modal. She tells a story and wants us to write notes. She gives exercises to do online, and to do in textbook. She tells us to read novels during spring break, and after class. She says a word and gives the definition, explains, gives examples. She teaches the way we understand, and we easily remember. She explains by hand gestures and walking. She gives quizzes to guess how to figure out an answer. She makes us to organize profiles. She wants us to do vocabulary on index cards. She wants us to highlight in the textbook. She lets us to write an answer on the board, and draw a picture of our vocabulary words. | |||||||||||||||||
| My writing professor's teaching style, likewise, is multi-modal. He mostly reads a story and lets us read. He always tells us to read a loud. Of course writing, he tells us to write an essay, and do analyzing from textbook. My writing professor is visual teacher sometimes when he tells to write an essay about observing events. He tells us to visualize about your essay what you wrote, how you feel when you were observing for your essay. He gives lectures in the class, and leads in discussion. He goes by student-by-student to have any questions. He meets student-by-student in his offices. He likes us to make a nice essay, and find more material from Internet, and rank them in order. He wants us to highlight material from the textbook, and material we have gotten from Internet. He is pretty much in everything, but he is mostly in the writing. | |||||||||||||||||
| Information about learning styles and multiples intelligence is helpful for everyone. Knowing your learning style will help you develop coping strategies to compensate for your weaknesses and capitalize on your strengths. Once you have figured out the way you learn, you will need to use specific strategies to fit into your way of learning. | |||||||||||||||||
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