learning+styles

http://www.facesoflearning.net/

What is Learning Strategies? Learning strategies are ways to help you learn more easily and effectively at school and throughout life.

Students will create a portfolio that will show them where they have been and what progress they are making -- evidence of their learning.

Make a list of words and phrases that describe them.

====Letters of your name --Word starting with that letter that describes you --Why you chose this word====

A ---ACTIVIST---I AM AN ENVIRONMENTALIST

N -NICEI TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT

G GRATEFUL---FOR MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND A GREAT CAREER

E-ENERGETIC-LOVE ADVENTURE AND OUTDOORS

L-- LOVE ANIMALS--OF ALL KINDS

AAMBITIOUS---LOVE TO LEARN NEW THINGS AND SET CHALLENGES FOR MYSELF

http://literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html Students will complete the above multiple intelligence test to see where their strengths are. Their report is to be printed and included in their portfolio.

Each student will receive a legal file folder. The file folder will contain the above intelligence test and an attractive presentation of their strengths/interests in a poster format or coat of arms.

Students will create an avatar on bitstripsforschools.com. Each week students will create 1 block per week of what strategy they used and how it did or did not work for them. Comic strips will be submitted the last Friday of each month. media type="custom" key="10361040" In Pairs, students will read a paragraph out loud while the other student paraphrases what has been read. Reverse rolls every 2 or 3 paragraphs.
 * Day 2 Read over the page of reading strategies.**

[|Discovering Your Learning Style.docx]

Everyone learns through // Visual, Auditory, // and // Kinesthetic // means or // modalities //. Visual learners remember best through what they see, auditory learners from what they hear, and kinesthetic learners from movement and touching. Although each of us learns in all three of the modalities to some degree, most people prefer one over the other two.

Knowing there are differences and what they are goes a long way toward explaining things like why we have problems understanding and communicating with some people and not with others, and why we handle some situations more easily than others. The following will clarify these three learning modalities.

Visual

If you have a strong visual preference, the use of pictures, graphs, charts and other organizational tools are most helpful. These learners want to see the information to be learned and can visually represent it with ease. Visual learners learn best when their information is graphically presented. They need a big picture and purpose, and remain cautious until mentally clear. Visual learners remember what was seen.

Visual learners use expressions like:

• “Picture this...” • “See...” • “Looks like...” • “Focus here...”

Auditory

If you have an auditory preference, you must hear the information to learn most efficiently. These students learn as if they have a tape recorder in their head to which their learning is sequenced. They retrieve information exactly the way they heard it. “Audios” learn best when they have the opportunity to recite information aloud and remember best what was discussed.

Auditory learners use expressions like:

• “Sounds like...” • “Listen...” • “Rings a bell...” • “Hear it loud and clear...”

Kinesthetic

If you have a kinesthetic preference, you require physical manipulation of information. These students learn by “hands-on” experience and memorize through actions related to the content. Kinesthetic learners remember an overall impression of what was experienced.

Kinesthetic learners use expressions like:

• “Grasp the concept...” • “Feel warm...” • “I get it...” • “Slipped my mind...”