How+we+learn

Leaning Styles There are many different ways that a person learns information. Felder and Solman put together a paper that described ten different learning styles. These styles are active, reflective, sensing, intuitive, visual, verbal, sequential and global. The active learners tend to remember information when they do something active with it. Reflective learners tend to retain after they think about the information presented to them. Sensing learners are good memorizer and love facts. Intuitive learners are better with concepts. Visual learns remember what they see. Verbal learns remember what they hear. Sequential leaner's understand step by step instructions. Global learners tend to get the big pictures of a subject before they master the details. The little test I took to determine what type of a learning I was, wasn't' really actuate. I didn't like the fact that there were only two answers to choose from. It made it impossible to actually judge me since on some questions both answers worked for me. When I took the little test to determine my learning style my results told me that I'm dominantly an active and visual learner. It also said I was a sequential learner. The only reason this one even showed up as how I learn is because the questions were worded in a way that asked whether I liked precise instructions or not. I of course said I liked instructions because if I don't have them I usually end up get wrong. I believe that by being aware of theses leaning styles it will help me to create lessons that will benefit all of my students. I will not however use the little test to determine which type of learners my students are.