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For parents, teachers, educators and adult learners. Discover how to promote learning success using Learning Styles.
How often has your teacher told you to plan your writing assignment? It may have been a Pie Chart tool, or a List tool, or a fancy Head-And-Legs tool, but whatever it's called, whatever its shape, its purpose is clear: a story plan. The trouble is, some people don't get inspiration from story plans. If your Learning Style is Holistic, you're not a planner. Asking you to plan your story before you put pen to paper (or fingers on keyboard) is as productive as asking you to squeeze a piece of coal in your fist until you get a diamond.
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Question: How do you turn your classroom into a Learning Styles classroom?
Answer: It's not easy, but it's fun.
Start by analysing your students' learning styles to identify their learning style preferences and needs.
- Create a Group Profile of your students to get the at-a-glance-summary of how they like their environment to look.
- Look at any results that are 80% or higher and select one or two of them that look like the easiest to change (the cheapest, the most exciting).
- Allow the children to help.
Some students are likely to grumble: they are probably the ones who value routine and...
Khan Academy is an educational website. Its tagline promises to help you “learn almost anything—for free.” You can choose from over 2,400 videos explaining the principles of maths, science, and economics. Between 7 and 14 minutes long, the videos consist of a voice-over by the website's creator, Salman Khan. All you see is hand-scribbled formulas and diagrams as they appear on your screen. There are no fancy graphics and the videos are not interactive.
And yet, many teachers and homeschooling parents turn to the Khan Academy videos to aid with homework and exam preparation. The advantages, they say, are that the students can move at their own pace and rewind...
Is your child's handwriting messy? Does your child find excuses not to do written work? It could be that their learning style doesn't lend itself to writing, but it could also signify a learning disability.
A specific learning disability that affects written language, impaired letter writing by hand and spelling, usually characterised by extremely poor handwriting. It sometimes combines strong verbal but particularly poor writing skills. Copying will be slow and difficult, even if the end result is neat (which it often isn’t). Although children with dysgraphia do not have motor control problems, they may have difficulty touching the thumb...
With exams around the corner, most students' minds turn to the process of studying. Do you know your particular method for assimilating information? Do you know what works best for you? Here are a few general tips:
Get your attitude right. Positive thinking won't make you pass the test if you haven't studied, but negative thinking can make you fail even when you know the work. It's the magic of our brain, the "mind over matter" phenomenon. So tell yourself you'll do well in the exams. Tell yourself you love to study. Once you've studied hard, tell...
Barbara Prashnig explains the importance of understanding the role of learning styles in studying and exam preparation:
"Thousands of students will soon be preparing themselves for the next round of exams in schools all over the world. Many will suffer from anxiety, frustration and despair because they know they are fighting a losing battle.
Considering learning styles in the context of information intake (learnining) and output (sitting exams), our research over the last twenty years shows that the points of difference are this:
a) During the presentation of new and/or difficult information in class, learning styles need to be accommodated to...
Here, at Creative Learning, we are dedicated to the subject of learning. This means learning in all its forms and in every environment; from formal settings to home study to the workplace. Our speciality is HOW we learn, before WHAT we learn. If you'd like to learn more about Style Analysis (the HOW of learning), here's an opportunity for you: we are offering an online course during the first ten days of November 2011. Please email info@clc.co.nz to register. Teachers, parents, students - all welcome.
Have you ever wondered what it implies for a child’s learning when they are highly holistic or internally motivated? Or looked at a group profile of your class and compared it to your own Teaching Style Analysis report? Now is the time to dig deeper into the concept of Learning Styles.
When: 1 - 10 November 2011
Where: online
How much: USD149.00
Click here for more information.
Our popular online course (Introduction to LSA) is back!
We don’t have set times when you have to be in front of the computer - do it at your own leisure. Nor do we have Real Time participation, though email participation is encouraged. Classes will be held on a designated Yahoo Group. The way it'll work will be fairly structured yet informal, to accommodate all learning styles and most schedules.
The tutor will post a lesson on the forum (this will be available on the yahoo group's website and as an email sent to your address), usually with homework assignments. The...
The Question of Creativity
Is homework in your household creative? Creativity is the ability to produce something new, to generate unique ideas and solutions. The process of creating should be a fun energizing activity. Is homework in your household fun and energising? It should be. It can be. With the help of learning styles.
Kinesthetic - the child learns better through own physical experiences:
· Bake a cake together to teach conversion from grams to kilograms.
· Pantomime or act out a history lesson.
· Play a board game to discover new facts.
· Take a field trip to the...
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