LEARNING STYLES 1.

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Application of Learning Styles in Teaching and Learning
Hillary Crissinger, M.A.& Doctoral candidate in Special Education

Presenter

I am Hillary Crissinger, Charter Schools

Resource Specialist servicing the
learning disabled population attending
charter programs and other duties as
assigned.
My email address is
hcrissinger@sccoe.org

Agenda

Introduction
Ice Breaker
Learning Styles
Inventory
Learning Styles 101
review
What is your learning
style?
Learning Style groups
creates a lesson using
their best modality.

They present it to the other members

of their group.

Using the powers of your own

observation skills to understand
learning styles.

Please turn off your cell phone.

Ice Breaker

Everyone line up by height and tell the

group where they grew up.
Tell one detail about the day your were
born.

What is your learning style?

Kolbs approach

Where do you think ?

Turn to a partner at your table and share

where you fit into the Kolb schematic.
Tell your partner a story that supports
this perception.

Learning Styles Inventory

Please fill out the VARK and compute the

score.
After you compute your score and
classify yourself as a certain type of
learner fill out the label and place it on
the left side of your chest.
This is you learner identity based on the
VARK.
Please note where you might be on the
Kolb.

VARK Model

Visual
Aural
Kinesthetic
Read /Write

Review of the VARK Ideas

Distribution of Learning
Styles
5%

Visual
30%

65%

Tactile

Auditory

Teams of 2 or 3

Partners are one type of learner.

Visual Team, Auditory Team, Read/Write
team and Kinesthetic Team.
Teach an assignment in the way you
learn bestsuch as visual learners
present a concept visually and so on for
the other styles.

Part 2

Pair up with another team and present

to each other.
[Each Task will be punctuated by the
sound of music.]
Keep in mind that this lesson uses your
strength.

Break for 10 minutes

How do you assess your

students?

Observation
Inventory
take
Interview

} These tools are in the

away packet

Application

The goal of this activity is to observe a

classroom and see which learning
modalities are being used to teach the
lesson.
We will be stopping the film at intervals
to comment on it.

Process

Was that classroom auditory, kinesthetic,

visual or read/ write?

Review

Culminating Activity

When I go back to the classroom how

will this knowledge support my work?
Check your take away packet
Q&A
Thank you!!