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Exploring Learning Style and Preference
What Students Do
Students explore the concepts of learning styles and learning strategies and take a Web-based learning preference survey. Once they have completed the survey, they discuss the results and their implications with you.
Planning
Speak with the Career Center Specialist or Counselor in your building. They may have additional learning style or preference inventories. Review a variety of learning style inventories; consider the appropriateness for the students you are working with. There are links to the VARK and the DVC inventorieson the right hand column. Complete and score one or more learning style inventories on yourself. Use the Post-ITT search engine to explore other resources related to Activity 1 by selecting the link (right), select "search method 2" and specifying this activity.
Warm Up Activity
Introduce the concept of learning styles by talking about the different ways people learn. Students go through self-discovery during this activity. Consider using yourself as an example to start the activity. Talk about your results. Share how you learn best as well as what makes learning hard for you. In addition to introducing the activity, you set the climate by modeling your strengths as well as limitations.