How Identifying Your Learning Style Can Enhance Student Learning
Sally Winterton, Ed. D.
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
swinterton@wcupa.edu
Workshop Outline
I.
Introductions
II.
Workshop Objectives
III.
Definition and Research
A. What are Learning Styles?
B. Research
IV.
Learning Styles Models
A. Carbo, Reading Style Inventory
B. Dunn & Dunn, Learning Style Inventory
C. Gregorc, Mindstyles
D. Kolb, LeaRniing Style Inventory
E. McCarthy, 4MAT
F. Myers-Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
G. Sternberg, Triarchtic Thinking
V.
Identifying Your Style
A. Completion of the Style Delineator
B. Explanation of the each style
C. Exploring Students’ Styles
VI.
Questions
Teaching Strategies Categorized by Learning Styles
CS Provide A Framework
AS Explain Why, help Focus
Worksheets
Lecture
Outlines, Charts
Text-Reference, Bibliographies
Demonstrations
Topic Outlines
Memory Games
Notetaking
Drill and Practice
Research (written reports)
Hands-On-Work
Instructional A. V.
Practical Problems
Individualized Study/Time to Think
Doing Timelines
Debates
Realistic Writing
Producing original research based ideas
Field Trips
Analysis
Information Search
Evaluation
Objective test
Application of a specific skill
Evaluation
Lengthy analytical essay
Analyze an activity describing how the objective
was illustrated
Teaching Strategies Categorized by Learning Styles (Continued)
CR-Option to Interject Self
AR- Personalize
Brainstorm
Group Work (Cooperative Learning)
Problem Solving
Mnemonics
Experiments
Visual Thinking
Hands-On-Activities
Humor–Not Sarcasm
Mini-Lecture
Mini-Lecture and Discussion
Games (competition) Simulations
Interpretive Writing or Drawing
Independent Study (Originality, Creative)
Webbing
Graphic Presentation
Role Play, Drama
Webbing
Allow Creative Approach
Analogies
Evaluation
Produce a Product
Open-ended Activity
Evaluation
Oral Discussion or Performance
Short Interpretative Essay
Selected Learning Styles Bibliography
American Association of School Administrators. (1991). Learning Styles: Putting research and common
sense into practice. Arlington, VA: Author.
Baron, Renee. (1998). What type am I? Discover who you really are. New York: Penguin Books.
Brandt, Ronald, S. (Ed.). (1990). Learning styles and the brain. Educational Leadership, 48(2).
Burke, Patricia, & Garger, Stephen. (1985). Marching to different drummers. Alexandria, VA:
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Butler, Kathleen. (1988). It's all in your mind. Columbia, CT: The Learner's Dimension.
Butler, Kathleen. (1986). Learning and teaching style. Columbia, CT: The Learner's Dimension.
www.learnersdimension.com
Carbo, Marie, Dunn, R., & Dunn, K. (1986). Teaching students to read through their individual learning
styles. New York: Prentice Hall.
Dunn, R., & Dunn, K., (1992). Teaching elementary students through their individual learning styles.
New York: Allyn & Bacon.
Galloway, Charles, M. (Ed.). (1984). Matching teaching and learning styles. Theory Into Practice, 23(1).
Gregorc, Anthony. (1982). An adult's guide to style. Columbia, CT: Gregorc Associates, Inc.
www.gregorc@eartjlink.net
Pierce, Howard. (1999). The owner’s manual for the brain: Everyday applications from mind-brain
research. (2nd Ed.). Mariettta, GA: Bard Press.
Kiersey, David. & Bates, Marilyn. (1984). Please understand me. Del Mar, CA: Prometheus Nemesis
Book Company.
Lawrence, Gordon.(1982). People types & tiger stripes. Gainesville, FL: Center for Applications of
Psychological Types, Inc.
National Association of Secondary School Principals. (1979). Student learning styles. Reston, VA:
Author.
National Association of Secondary School Principals. (1982). Student learning styles and brain behavior.
Reston, VA: Author.
Sousa, David. (2001). How the brain learns. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Sousa, David. (2001). How the special needs brain learns.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Svinicki, M. D., & Dixon, N. M. (1986). The Kolb model modified for classroom activities. College
Teaching. 35 (4), 141-146.