The opposite learning styles, involving listening and verbal skills, are more difficult for me. I would much rather learn how something works by using it than by listening to someone tell me how it works. When any of my teachers stand in front of the classroom and just reads form the text book. This type of teaching is my kryptonite, the words just pass right through me. To help me my learning process in class's like that i need to recreate the lectured material using my own visual tools and adapt my teacher's preferred teaching methods to my preferred learning styles.
The talker’s main responsibility is to…well…talk. He does have suggestions for the talker on how to share feelings (77-9), thoughts (80-1), and what he calls the “My” aspects of the human factor (82-3), better known as ownership and openness, but the book is clearly stacked in the receiving teams direction, so you should just go with your training when it comes to barking or carrying out commands and orders demanding quick response or high priority rather than responding with a long pause and
I would want to have done the same things once I have my own classroom and I feel fairly passionate for students to understand and develop tolerance towards people who may be different than themselves. I feel that as teachers, we can take action to really mold our students to grow and be better individuals living in this world. I really do believe that issues in the matter of race/ethnicity and culture has to do with educating oneself of these things and practicing the basic matters a person should carry with themselves. I really think that these issues need to be discussed in depth when students are young and continuously because it is harder for one’s mind to see the wrong in something they believed was right for most of their
Paulo Freire set out to change this conformist system by encouraging teachers and learners to strive for educational freedom and to form a partnership in attaining humanity for the oppressed. His direct contribution to this process was the Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo insisted students take on a more active role in their learning and that teachers have open dialogue with their students to promote critical thinking and creativity, rather than having a simple narrator role in the classroom. (Flanagan, 2005) Brickman’s Contributions William Brickman also believed in educational freedom and set his sights on international and
Lastly, is my case of learning style, what I am going to discus in this essay. A active learning style learns best not from explanation or direction; but from simply just doing it. For me the exactly learning comes through touching and physical sensation. The thinking is anchored by movement, and touch, so demonstration or application works better than words to illustrate ideas. Therefore the active learner is a more of doer, that would rather take action and learn something, or find a solution problem.
In this essay you will see my findings on my particular learning style, personality type, and how I can now benefit by knowing this and how to expand my knowledge in implementing other way of learning. “Overall, learning is a blend of various styles.” (Pheifer, 2009). I discovered that my style of learning is that I am a visual learner! This came as a surprise to me since I always thought of myself as a hands on learner. Although in reflecting on this for a bit I realize that I do visualize and retain more information by reading and studying material, not just the hands on approach.
Federico Fellini once said “A different language is a different vision of life”. He is talking about that when you speak a different language a whole new different part of life opens up to you and you see from others’ points of view on life. Learning a second language is school is a very important thing to do because it will help you improve your life style and the way you think too. It will help you throughout life by getting better working opportunities, improve your brain ability to stay focused and also to help increase your multicultural awareness skills. Most employers prefer that the person applying for the job is bilingual or even trilingual.
I agree with Lickona (2009) when he said that “family lays the Foundation”. In order for schools to be successful in teaching character education there needs to be open communication between parents and educators. Lickona (2009) also stated that “schools build on the foundation”. Parents need to be informed and involved with the character education curriculum the school is implementing. Kohn (1997) changed my opinion on how to teach character education.
He also felt that in order for people to truly learn and remember what they learn, they would need to become more “active” in the learning by “asking questions, do things hands on, to essentially re-create things in their own mind and transform them as is needed” they will remember the lessons for a longer period of time. The intelligences that Gardner described are in chapter 2 (Alexander, Clugson, and Tice, 2010, pp. 39-40), and are listed as Logical-Mathematical, Linguistic, Spatial, Musical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. Garner believed as well that these intelligences, which are separated in the brain anatomically, “complement each other and function concurrently in enabling a person to build skills and solve problems.” For example, a person running a clothing boutique may need to use Bodily-Kinesthetic skills, Spatial intelligences, and Logical-Mathematical to stock the store with items for purchase in an appealing way, based on size and layout of the store, number of pieces available, and sometimes by price of the item. Their Intrapersonal, Linguistic, and Interpersonal skills would also come
This requires the readers to be able to analyse beneath the surface of the text rather than simply accepting and following the author's perspective. Of course critical literacy isn’t an entirely new concept for us. Since a young age our teachers have enforced critical literacy through our learning to give us the ability to question, investigate and challenge the relationships between language, social groups and practices over others. The significance of the ability for us adolescents to be able to become critically literate thinkers is very important. It allows us to become active thinkers and develop the ability to inquire and reflect on the societal concerns, interact and build connectedness with our life choices.