Thanks Polick.
Before the lecture in classroom I am trying to practice the lecture in feculty room and how I present it.
Since knowing the learning style of students is so important, I find it useful to survey students from the very beginning in clever ways to get a better understanding of their learning styles. It's amazing what you can find out when you ask students questions like: Why are you taking this course, If you work, what do you do and what is the nature of that job, Do you like it. In addition it is helpful just to ask the student how they think they learn best.
Hi Vickie, I agree with you group discussions are more helpful than individual. After finish the lecture and give that topis's question to the students and make them small group to answer those questions
The benefits are that more of your students will learn and retain more new information if you can use the learning style that works best for them not just your own teaching style. Recognizing this and finding out early in the semester will enhance the students abilities and enjoyment of the subject matter.
Hi molly - i liked that you mentioned twice that you like to sit down and discuss your observations with your students! It surely helps to form a "comfort zone" with them. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Knowing the learning styles is really important to be an effective Instructor. Its really makes the job easy as the students are receiving they want it. They tend to grasp more and the outcome is ggod.
Class Participation tells me a lot about a students learning style. I am able to observe the strengths and weakness of students and sit down and discuss my observations with them.
Hi Susana- The learning styles inventories take only minutes to compelete, so I don't think it is too difficult to ask students to complete two of them for confirmation of their learning styles. I agree with you on your take on "background music", but then, I am approaching age 60 so probably there is a disconnect! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Lynette- Thanks for sharing some great examples of adapting your delivery to the learning styles of your students. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
The benefit of knowing the learning styles of your students are that you will know what modality to use to teach them for the best comprehension.
If students are visual learners then power points or Youtube video's will be helpful. If students are auditory learners then my discussion of power point slides and my drawing diagrams on the board will be helpful. So, tailoring my presentations to the student's learning style benefits both myself and the student.
Knowing your student learning style help us teachers to plan learning activities and make sure nobody is left behind ,not only that but it alsio maked the lecture content more interesting to everybody in the classroom
I understand that it is very important; in that it will afford the student the best learning outcomes. What I'm not exactly convinced of, is it seems more like a reliance on the students self assessment; as to what their learning style is, and I don't know how reliable that is. I am recalling that it was said in our course; to ask the student what is the most effective way...
I imagine a good number of students will testify that listening to their ipod, etc helps them study or do any of the required work...I find this hard to believe. How would I be able to test their theory [about themselves?].
I really don't think that we have time [our modules are 5 weeks long]or students are not inclined to want to take a test twice----to prove a point. I can't think of another way, can you? Is there any studies on this?
I do believe that there are times when background music can help...but I don't think that rap music [a driving beat,etc] would lend itself to studying. I think any music that has a strong base line, drums, or anything like that would be too stimulating [as it mimicks the heartbeat]...I think did read a study about this somewhere/at some time.
Hi Alma- Thanks for your post to the forum. As you mention, our observation skills are essential when determining the learning styles of our students. Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Nicole - Thanks for your post to the forum. You mentioned that through technology, content is available in many different formats - SO significant! Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
Hi Nancy - Thanks for your post to the forum. You are doing a great job of incorporating learnin g stylrs into your classroom. I like to use these learning styles assessments.
http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/stylest.html
http://www.ldpride.net/learning-style-test.html
Best wishes for continued success in your teaching career. Susan
It is imperative to know the learning styles of your students!
If an instructor delivered an auditory lecture, then students with other learning styles will not benefit as much from the delivery of the information. Then the instructor wonders why the test scores are so low!
Asking the students to take a learning styles survey will provide the instructors with vaulable information on how to best deliver information to their students. An instructor can integrate various learning strategies in their lessons on order to meet the needs of students with varied learning styles.
I have found that discussion of learning styles, testing for learning styles, and asking students to identify their own (and give examples) opens the class to taking advantage of all four types. I also explain what style I'm using while I use it. Student involvement increases and, of course, so does learning.
What do you find are the best tests for detereming students' learning styles?
By knowing the student's preferred learning style, the instructor can better plan to delver a lesson. Instruction will be more effective for the students. If there are various learning styles in a group,several instructional strategies can be used to reach each student's learning needs.
Judy Morici
Knowing the style of the student can make you more ecclectic in your teaching style and give you better results.
