Chapter 3

Must be fully prepared to reach a diverse group of students with a variety of:

•Backgrounds•Experiences

•Cultures•Personalities

•Learning Styles

Basic Learning Styles and Principles

The Role of the Educator

•A educator is a facilitator.•A facilitator is a catalyst for learning.

•Catalyst: an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action.•As an educator, we want to create circumstances within which learning takes

place at a faster rate.

Learning Styles Defined

KEY: When a student has difficulty learning, it is most likely because they are processing the information outside of their natural learning style.

•A learning style is a student’s favored, or preferred method of thinking, understanding, and processing information.

•75% of all educators today present material in a sequential, analytical manner, whereas as little as 10% of student learn effectively that way.

•Must integrate better strategies!

ActivityDirectionsRead the following article.http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/15801/Explain how the “GLAD” program helps struggling students overcome their learning challenges.

Learning Style Profiles•Bernice McCarthy’s 4MAT learning model identifies four learner types.

What if? Why?

What?How?

Dynamic Learning/

Intuitive Learners

Imaginative Learning/

Interactive Learners

Common Sense Learning/

Systematic Learners

AnalyticalLearning/ Reader

and Listener Learners

What learning style are you?

ActivityDirectionsReview page 54 in your Milady Course book.

Answer the following questions. Answer key is on the next page.

Options for answers:a. Interactive/Imaginative Learnersb. Reader and Listener/Analytical Learnersc. Systematic / Common Sense Learnersd. Intuitive/ Dynamic Learners

1. What type learns by watching, listening and sharing ideas?2. What type is excellent at remembering facts and details?3. What type learns better by themselves?4. What type learns best through trial and error?5. What type learns best by reading and hearing new ideas?6. What type likes doing and feeling?7. What type likes to study in a group?8. What type learns best when they connect to real life situations?

Activity AnswersOptions for answers:a. Interactive/Imaginative Learnersb. Reader and Listener/Analytical Learnersc. Systematic / Common Sense Learnersd. Intuitive/ Dynamic Learners

1. What type learns by watching, listening and sharing ideas? A2. What type is excellent at remembering facts and details? B3. What type learns better by themselves? C4. What type learns best through trial and error? D5. What type learns best by reading and hearing new ideas? B6. What type likes doing and feeling? D7. What type likes to study in a group? A8. What type learns best when they connect to real life situations? C

•Sensory learning styles help educators teach the students effectively.

Auditory 25%

Kinesthetic 40%

Visual 35%

Four Steps in Learning

•Regardless of learning style, a student will likely learn new information in the following steps:

1. Desire- Before we learn anything, we must want to learn.2. Input and Environment- Must receive information in an environment that is conductive

to learning.3. Assimilation- Must process and understand the information.4. Repetition- Must repeat or practice the theory or application until task has been

mastered.

ActivityDirectionsThink of when you first decided to go to school for Cosmetology and your experience in school. On a separate sheet of paper, explain how you went through each of the four steps.

Multiple Intelligences

•The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, outlines a theory regarding learning that encompasses a broad spectrum of learning profiles and steps in learning.

•The theory addresses how we are smart vs. how smart we are.

•There are two fundamental concepts:1. Intelligence is not fixed; humans have the ability to develop intellectual capacity.2. Education is not unitary; there are many ways in which students can be smart.

• In search for intelligence, three prerequisites must be met.1. It must require skills that enable an individual to resolve genuine problems.2. It must require the ability to create an effective product.3. It must have the potential for finding or creating problems.

Intelligence Description Traits Learning Study Tips Careers

Verbal/LinguisticThe ability to communicate through language, which includes listening, reading, writing, and speaking.

"Word Wise", extensive vocabulary, tell great stories, know what to say and when to say it.

Verbal presentations, reading, writing, and listening to lectures.

Reading text and highlighting 20% or less, rewriting notes, outlining, debating.

Public speaker, attorney, judge, politician or teacher.

Visual Spatial Intelligence

The ability to understand spatial relationships and comprehend and create images.

"Space Wise", flair for color and style, artistic, creative.

Diagrams, flowcharts and performing demonstrations.

Take notes using diagrams, graphics and arrows, color-coding notes.

Photographer, artist, hair designer, pilot, landscaper.

Logical/ Mathematical Intelligence

The ability to understand logical reasoning and problems solving in areas such as math, sciences and patterns.

"Logic Wise", follow rules, good with numbers and computations, loves games.

Like to understand the reasons for doing things, brainstorming, classify, sort, and fix things.

Study in quiet setting, pausing to ponder, thinking about why material is important, journaling.

Banker, teacher, engineer, computer programmer, detective.

Intrapersonal Intelligence The ability to understand one's own

behavior and feelings.

"Self-Wise", comtemplative, self-assess, antisocial, loners, daydreamers, meditators.

Learn best after they have had time to think, study alone, workbook activities, self-paced activities.

Study in a quiet setting, pause to ponder, consider cause and effects of material. Psychiatrist, author, researcher.

Bodyily/Kinesthetic Intelligence.

The ability to use the physical body skillfully to solve problems, create products, or present ideas and emotions as well as take in knowledge through bodily sensation such as coordination or working with the hands.

"Body Wise", master physical performance, dance, act, "wiggle worms", always in motion.

Role-play, building models, creating simulations, conducting experiments.

Group study, pacing and reciting while studying, peer coaching, games.

Cometologist, dancer, athlete, carpenter, surgeon.

Interpersonal Intelligence

The ability to relate to others, noticing their moods, motivations, and feelings.

"People Wise", sensitive to the moods, motives, and feelings of other people, good leaders, great organizers, mediators, social butterflies.

Forming teams for group interactions, role-playing, peer-coaching, assign students to plan.

Group study, flash cards with other students, games, studying with a partner.

Teacher, politician, religious leader, philanthropist.

Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence The ability to comprehend and/or

create meaningful musical sounds.

"Music Wise", keep rhythm, great understanding and appreciation of music, always humming and singing.

Creating music in classroom, write jingles for study, implementing musical energizers during class.

Playing background music while studying, creating rhymes out of vocubulary words. Musician, theater director, singer.

Naturalist Intelligence

The ability to make consequential distinctions in the natural world and to use this ability productively such as in farming or biological science.

"Nature Wise", keep awareness of nature, identify different classes of items such as types of birds or cars, probably recycle.

Learn best when the content can be sorted and classified.

Making observations, classifying information, categorizing, journaling observations, studying outdoors.

Zoologist, biologist, holistic esthetician.

Multiple Intelligence Chart

ActivityDirectionsAfter reviewing the Multiple Intelligence Chart, rate yourself in each intelligence. Use a scale from 1-10 with 1 needing improvement, 5 average and 10 being your strongest intelligence. Also, write down tips you can use to help your studies in the Master Educator Program.

1. Verbal/Linguistic2. Bodily/Kinesthetic3. Logical/Mathematical4. Visual/Spatial5. Musical/Rhythmic6. Interpersonal7. Intrapersonal8. Naturalist

Notes

The Benefits and Importance of Identifying Learning Styles

•Student Benefits1. Know how they learn and make smarter choices.2. Identify a good work environment.3. Target areas that need improvement.

• Educator Benefits1. Develop better lesson plans.2. Greater student success.3. Give all students an equal opportunity to succeed.

How to Identify Preferred Intelligence•Pose a problem and have the group go about resolving it. Observe how students

approach it.•Ask students to build a model of something.

•Have student fill out the questionnaire provided on Page 70 and 71 in your Milady Course Book.

•Remind your students that they will manifest a mixture of intelligences, with some being more developed than others.

Developing Intelligences

•We do not have a “fixed” intelligence.•Most successful people have developed an intelligence area they were weak in.

Combining Intelligences

•Focus on 3-4 intelligences in every class we teach.•Should address all intelligences during the course of a week of study.