THIS IS A CHART OF MY LEARNING STYLES
According to Pashler et. al.: The term “learning styles” refers to the concept that individuals differ in regard to what mode of instruction or study is most effective for them.
Here is the chart that shows my learning preferences:
Yo can do your own test at this url: Birmingham Grid for Learning
I think it is important to you know well your learning preferences as you can take advantage of the skills you can use to acquire knowledge.
Although there is no scientific evidence that an individual student learns best if he is taught in an appropriate method matching his learning style, there may be a real difference in the way we receive and process the information.
There are to many theories on learning styles since they became popular in the 1970`s. these theories propose that teachers assess their learners learning preferences and adapt their methodology to best fit each individual student`s learning style.
Susan Greenfield sais that this practice is nonsense from a neuroscientific point of view: ” Humans have evolved to build a picture of the world through our senses working in unison, exploiting the immense interconnectivity that exist in the brain”.
I think that despite the fact that we have no evidence that these theories are accurate the teacher must ever be able of providing his students with a wide variety of activities in order to enrich the learning process. As the same David A. Kolb Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Weather school of Management and the creator of the Learning Style Inventory model said agreeing partly to Pashler: “The paper correctly mentions the practical and ethical problems of sorting people into groups and labeling them. Tracking in education has a bad history.”
As Marilee Sprenger says in Differentiation trough Learning styles and Memory:
- Teachers can be learners, and learners teachers. We are all both.
- Everyone can learn under the right circumstances.
- Learning is fun!, Make it appealing.
TKT Arthur 