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Cognitive (Learning) Styles
How to learn How You Learn
- Much has been written on the topic, cognitive (learning) styles. Many excellent inventories are available, inexpensive and teacher-friendly.
- Addressing cognitive styles of students with LD is critical to the usefulness of the students’ Individual Education Plans (IEPs).
RESOURCES TO INVESTIGATE:
Visit this Web Site for a slick inventory of your learning style preference.
Personal Learning Style Inventory (36 questions)
Immediate feedback from The Center for New Discoveries in Learning. A commercialized site but excellent resources cited.
Howard Gardner’s video: How Are Kids Smart? (using the multiple intelligences theory) is an excellent resource (available through Althouse College Library) on how one school district made a difference for its students by addressing cognitive styles.
Dr. Marie Carbo’s Reading Style Inventory(1986), booklet form or on disk. Administered individually, in groups, early primary to adult learners, relatively inexpensive.
QUESTIONS AND A CHALLENGE TO
PONDER:
Do you have learning style inventories you prefer to use and wish to share? When, where and how have you used cognitive(learning) style inventories and/or been able to get regular classroom teachers to do so? Has the use of such made a difference? As your group prepares Assignment 5 you might consider taking the following challenge now or after the course ends...
Take a small group of students and pre-inventory them about how they think they learn and/or study. Use the PLSI on the "howtolearn" web site. Have some fun with your findings. You and your students are conducting action research. Send students home with the web site address to conduct their own research!!
Let us know about your experiences
if you try this before the course ends!!!!
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