Learning Styles and Strategies Chart

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Learning Styles and Strategies Chart
Using the concept of differentiated instruction, complete the chart below to describe and reflect on the
different learners and learning styles at XYZ Company based on research around the four generations in
the workplace. Identify the various learning styles of the generations and at least five learning strategies
for each one of the learning styles. Additionally describe how you might differentiate instruction for the
different learning strategies you identify.
World War II

Baby Boomers

Generation X

Generation Y

Learning styles

Read/Write

Read/Write/visual/aural/
kinesthetic

Visual/Kinesthetic

Kinesthetic

Learning
strategies

1. Team player

1. work in teams

1. multi-tasking
and multiple
changes

1. participation

2. likes directive
leadership

2.get-head attitudes

2. self- reliance
and wanting
empowerment

2. hands on

3. get to the point

3. structured
enviornment

3.techno-literal

3.technological
savy

4. tell them what

to do and when
to do it dedication

4.routine

4. independency
no structure

4. simulations

5.writes and
reads only no
technology

5. lectures and real

world application

5. materials have
to be brief and to
the point

5. structured
learning

There was no
differentiated
instruction. There
was one way to
teach and learn

There was some use of

diversity

Diversity hit a
peak and
experience from
all types of
backgrounds was
used

Diversity is used
to teach and
learn from
everyone. There
is facilitation not
lecture

Differentiated
instruction

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