Learning Style Comparison
Learning Style Comparison
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Learning Style Comparison
HSN/540 Teaching and Learning Strategies
Learning Style Comparison
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Learning Styles Comparison
In today’s job market employers are seeking individuals that are ready to take on new positions that require advance training. The job market is very competitive and the low skill jobs are disappearing forcing adults to return to school to learn new skills and be trained to fill these new positions. An Individual that is aware of his or her learning style will have a have a higher percentage succeeding in an educational environment than an individual that is not of aware of his or her learning style. In an effort to discover my learning style I will describe my learning assessment results and provide brief description of different learning styles. I will discuss what I learn about myself, and how my learning style affects my education. I will note the reasons why it is important to understand learning styles when developing adult education and training.
Index of Learning Styles (ILS) results
The ILS is an on-line instrument used to assess individual’s learning styles. The ILS instrument was developed Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State
University. The ILS assesses an individual on four dimensions such as active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global (Felder & Soloman, 2011). An active learner retains information by doing something with the information and the reflective learner will reflect on the information or think about it before acting on it. The Sensing learner prefers to learning factual information and the intuitive learner needs to discover the different relations that exist between the information that is being taught. The visual learner best learns by using pictures, diagrams, videos, or actual performance of a skill and the verbal learner learns by verbal explanations, lecture, or by writing. The sequential
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Learning Style Comparison
HSN/540 Teaching and Learning Strategies
Learning Style Comparison
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Learning Styles Comparison
In today’s job market employers are seeking individuals that are ready to take on new positions that require advance training. The job market is very competitive and the low skill jobs are disappearing forcing adults to return to school to learn new skills and be trained to fill these new positions. An Individual that is aware of his or her learning style will have a have a higher percentage succeeding in an educational environment than an individual that is not of aware of his or her learning style. In an effort to discover my learning style I will describe my learning assessment results and provide brief description of different learning styles. I will discuss what I learn about myself, and how my learning style affects my education. I will note the reasons why it is important to understand learning styles when developing adult education and training.
Index of Learning Styles (ILS) results
The ILS is an on-line instrument used to assess individual’s learning styles. The ILS instrument was developed Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State
University. The ILS assesses an individual on four dimensions such as active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global (Felder & Soloman, 2011). An active learner retains information by doing something with the information and the reflective learner will reflect on the information or think about it before acting on it. The Sensing learner prefers to learning factual information and the intuitive learner needs to discover the different relations that exist between the information that is being taught. The visual learner best learns by using pictures, diagrams, videos, or actual performance of a skill and the verbal learner learns by verbal explanations, lecture, or by writing. The sequential