Learning Styles
(3 parts)

At the completion of this set of assignments you should have a more detailed understanding of how you best learn. You should also have some specific tips that will help you be study and learn successfully. In other words, this should help you help yourself make school easier!

Please complete all three assignments, staple them together and turn them in with a neatly typed title page.

This set of assignments should take you about 1 day, total.

Learning Styles Intro

You need a piece of scratch paper for some brainstorming. Please number the questions, but the answers don't have to be typed or in complete sentences, just think on paper.

1. List a couple of your favorite classes. Can you think of anythings they have in common?
2. What do you really like to learn about - in or out of school?
3. Do you like being in school - why or why not?
4. Would you rather learn by doing or thinking? Give an example.
5. Do you think learning should be about memorizing lists or how to do things, or about learning to see connections and discovering information for yourself? Explain.
6. Which do you remember better - what you hear or what you see? Give an example.
7. Are you a "big picture" person or "all about the details"? Give an example.
8. How would knowing how you learn help you in Night School? any class?

Learning Styles Inventory

Please follow these instructions for part 2:

• Please go to the website: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
• This opens up to the survey for the NCSU Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire.
• Read the directions and go through the 44-question survey.
• When you have finished please print the results AND READ THEM. Highlight the parts that apply to you. Ask questions, agree or disagree with notes in the margins, etc. Just find a way to show that you read the results.

Learning Styles Reflection

You will want your survey results AND the learning style descriptions to complete this part. You will type these answers, making them formal, thoughtful and useful.

1. What are your strongest learning style preferences according to the survey? Does that seem right to you?
2. Think of a class or an assignment that you liked and explain how that assignment or class was a good match for your learning style(s).
3. List the tips for your learning style(s). Check the tips you had already figured out for yourself - now you know why they work.
4. Was this assignment useful to you? Why or why not? (Thanks for being respectful either way.)
5. BONUS Q: Name one of your teachers and predict their learning style(s). For each prediction give evidence based on what you have observed or heard the teacher say about their own learning.

TURN IN:

Brainstorm
Survey Results
Your Reflections