Week 10: Learning Styles in the Classroom

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'The diversity in how people think- and therefore learn. An individual’s learning style refers to the preferential way in which they absorb, process, comprehend, and retain information. Individual learning styles depend on cognitive, emotional and environmental factors, as well as prior experience.'

‘Learning Styles: All Students are Created Equally, and Differently.’ Teach: Make a difference, n.d. teach.com/what/teachers-know/learning-styles/


Swot Strategies

Referred to as SWOT (“Study Without Tears”), Flemings provides advice on how students can use their learning modalities and skills to their advantage when studying for an upcoming test or assignment.

Visual SWOT Strategies

  • Utilize graphic organizers such as charts, graphs, and diagrams.
  • Redraw your pages from memory.
  • Replace important words with symbols or initials.
  • Highlight important key terms in corresponding colors.

Aural SWOT Strategies

  • Record your summarized notes and listen to them on tape.
  • Talk it out. Have a discussion with others to expand upon your understanding of a topic.
  • Reread your notes and/or assignment out loud.
  • Explain your notes to your peers/fellow “aural” learners.

Read/Write SWOT Strategies

  • Write, write and rewrite your words and notes.
  • Reword main ideas and principles to gain a deeper understanding.
  • Organize diagrams, charts, and graphic organizers into statements.

Kinesthetic SWOT Strategies

  • Use real life examples, applications and case studies in your summary to help with abstract concepts.
  • Redo lab experiments or projects.
  • Utilize pictures and photographs that illustrate your idea.




https://medium.com/love2learnidaho/do-you-know-the-5-elements-of-a-learning-style-7721c10e358c
Dunn and Dunn Model:
This model was created out of a desire to empower and educate teachers and parents to analyze and motivate their children and students, to optimize their education to their unique learning preferences. The creators recognized that children learn differently, and some children need to be taught differently. This model doesn’t prescribe a fixed style for each learner, but rather lays out a comprehensive set of elements that can influence a learner.

Environmental: sound, light, seating, temperature.
Emotional: motivation, responsibility, task persistence, structure.
Sociological: independence, authority.
Physiological: mobility, intake, time of day.
Psychological: analytical, impulse and reflection.

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