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| Angela Mattio | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Finding my Learning Style | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ������ � Have you ever wondered about what type of learning styles you have? �Have you ever done a questionnaire about your learning styles?� Well now is the time to do so.� The HBDI questionnaire focuses on feeling, thinking, and doing and innovating learners.� However, the VARK explains visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic learning styles.� Both of the questionnaires have provided us with lots of learning styles information and it shows how you apply it in school or in your normal day lives.� Doing the HBDI or the VARK will help you improve in school and in your life. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ����� �� After taking the HBDI questionnaire, I discovered that I am a thinking learning.� As a thinking learner, I learn well from instructors who present information with lectures, visual aids, problem solving by the instructor, textbook readings and activities that call upon logical skills.� For example, at home I like to use visual aids such as flash cards while studying; it helps me to memorize the words.� Another example is using my vocabulary book. �It helps me to figure out which word goes with which sentence.� In my reading class, I enjoy looking at an over head about finding the main ideas.� That really helps me to pin point where the main ideas are.� Also, in my reading class we go to the lab and use the computers to do our vocabulary work.� I am able to look at the sentence and hear the word and see where it goes. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ������� � As a doing learner, I enjoy taking action.� I learn well from instructions who present factual information and step-by-step.� | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ��� ���� As a feeling learner, I enjoy personal connections and an supportive emotionally environment.� I learn well from instructors who are warm and caring.� I also value feelings as well as thoughts. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ��� ���� As for me being an innovating learner, I seek for new possibilities.� I learn from instructors who encourage students to discover new ideas.��� | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ���� ��� According to the VARK questionnaire, I have a multimodal learning preference.� As a multimodal learner, I have no single learning preference.� As an aural learner I learn well by attending class everyday, explaining new ideas to students who can't get the old ideas.� In study skills class I always ask questions about any topic I don't understand.� Also, I learn well by participating in class discussion.� | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ����� �� As a read/write learner, I learn by using a dictionary to look up my vocabulary words and also words I don't know when I am writing a paper in my reading class and writing class. Also, in reading I use my textbook to high light all the important subjects that I may think might be on the test.� And another example in study skills class, we do sq3r notes and that also helps us to prepare for a test. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ������� As a kinesthetic and visual learner, I kind of combine both of them in my schooling.� In reading class we used an over head to help us find out what's the main idea of the story.� In study skills class we did a puzzle that illustrated that's how we live our lives.� In writing class we used hand outs to show examples on how our paper supposed to be.� Also in study skills class I used high lighters in my textbook to create my notes.� A finally, in the same class we used the internet to learn how to create a web page. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ���� ��� According to the VARK learning styles I would say my study skills professor is in between.� I would say he has multimodal teaching styles.� Why?� Because he does a little bit of everything.� For instance, as a read/write teacher, in study skills class we do journals and he always gives us great feed back on them.� The feedback that he gives us really lifts us up and encourages us to keep writing more journals.� He also teaches us kinesthetic learning.� For example, we did a puzzle in groups and that was to show us the way we do puzzles is the way we do our lives.� Another kinesthetic activity is the graduation game. That was to get us ahead of our goals and accomplishments.� Using the VARK teaching styles, he always gives us lots of enthusiasm in class.� He also made us certificates of our goal and had us place them on the wall of fame.� I think that was a good thing to do because every time I come to class I take a good look at that wall and it reminds me of my education.� And last he uses is visual teaching styles to make us pay attention. What I mean is that he takes control of our computer and no one can use it except him. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ���� ��� According to the VARK learning styles I believe that my writing professor has a multimodal teaching style.� He uses his visual and read/write methods in class.� For example, he motivates is the class where we can write our papers better.� He also passes out hand outs to show us how he would like a paper to be done.� He also uses is aural teaching strategies.� He is always explaining new ides to enhance our paper.� He is available in the writing lab or before class to discuss any problems that we might have with our paper.� With his visual strategies he uses an over head to help us see the mistakes on our paper.� Also using his aural styles he gives us lots of feedback and suggestions on how to improve and write a better paper.� And finally, he uses his kinesthetic teaching by using the internet to show us how to get information for our profile paper. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ����� �� According to the HBDI learning styles, I score low as an innovating learner.� Not that I am slow in this area, I can grasp myself when it comes down to paying attention when I have a professor that teaches in the way innovating learners learn.� For example, by organizing my notes and study material using concept maps and personally meaningful symbols and pictures.� Study with classmates who have different preferred ways of learning from your own.� Use visual aids to explain concepts in class and participated in class discuss. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ����� �� �Doing the HBDI and the VARK test really helped me to discover what kind of learning styles I have.� Through these questionnaires I have a lot of information and have applied it in class and in my everyday life. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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