Learning styles

Question 1

learning styles?

Answer 1

different ways individuals taking in and proccess information, match students learning style when designing classroom activities

Question 2

verbilisers?

Answer 2

words - info in terms of words - hearing or reading - auditory - repeating over - focus on sounds - if they have a problem they talk about it or write it down

Question 3

Visualisers?

Answer 3

picture than words - visual proccessing - diagrams and mindmaps - graphs and charts - easy to picture characters in story - mindpalaces to help remember

Question 4

Kinasthetic learner?

Answer 4

hands on and touch - direct experience by exploration of enviroment - physical activities

Question 5

Evaluation?

Answer 5

strength: thraditional teaching - verbal methods alone - best learning stragety is a mixed approach - aims of learning styles is too draw attention to how people learn - encourage learners and teachers for more varied approach - beneficial

weakness: sheer number of different learning styles - impossible to put to practice - Frank coffield - 71 different learning styles - vast number - unworkable concept - difficult to find which styles suit us best - cannot improve performance than it is a pointless task trying to identify them - not useful concept