Goals:
To characterize your learning style
To compare your preferences for learning with colleagues possessing
different preferences
To use
your insights to design (redesign) a lesson that includes at least one
learning style
beyond your own. Directions:
1. Choose and complete at least one of the learning styles
assessments.
2. When finished, look for two other colleagues who used the same assessment tool but have different preferred learning styles
from you.
3. Talk with colleagues about how each of you approaches learning a new
concept or task
4. Choose a topic to teach (perhaps a topic relative to our work here
together) and design a single 5-8 minute lesson that accomodates each
of your learning styles
5. Plan on teaching the lesson to the group. Learning
Styles Assessments
The Rogers Indicator of Multiple
Intelligences This is an interactive assessment of
your intelligences. The theoretical ground is Howard Gardner's work.
Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire Barbara A. Soloman, and Richard M.
Felder, North Carolina State
University This particular version allows
on-line scoring and immediate feedback
for students. The feedback could easily to emailed to you if you
wished to look at the data yourself. http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.htmlVARK (Visual/Aural/Read-Write/Kinesthetic)
Questionnaire What is your preferred learning
modality? Learn about how you
learn using this brief questionnaire. This questionnaire aims to find out something about your
preferences for the way you work
with information. You will have a preferred learning style and one part of that
learning style is your preference
for the intake and output of ideas and information. How you learn has an impact on how
you teach. http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
Goals: To characterize your
teaching style
To compare your preferences for learning with colleagues possessing
different preferences
Directions: 1. Complete the Grasha-Reichmann teaching style inventory
2. Compare your findings with two new colleagues
3. Discuss the strengths and limitations of your styles for universally
designing and doing instruction
4. Prepare to briefly report your ideas to the group. (The post to the
Institute blog under "Teaching Styles and Universal
Design" Be sure to include your names in
your post) Teaching
Styles (a complement to learning styles)