...and based on how well a person learns , may become more or less successful in life . People have preferences to different learning styles and techniques and they may favor one style or use multiple styles. There is no right or wrong mixture. You can have the ability in less dominant styles and also improve on a well develop styles that, you already use .If you recognize and understand your own learning styles, you can use those techniques better .At the end , by doing that you will improve the speed and quality of your learning. The seven different learning styles are: • Visual (spatial): for those who prefer to use pictures, images, and spatial understanding. • Aural (auditory-musical): for people prefer to use sound and music. • Verbal (linguistic): if your preference is using words in speech and writing. • Physical (kinesthetic): when you using your body and hands as a sense of fell and touch. • Logical (mathematical): is a preferred method for using logic, reasoning and systems. • Social (interpersonal): learning is accomplished in groups or with other people. • Solitary (intrapersonal): preferred method of learning is alone and use self-study. VARK questioner score was designed by Neil Fleming as a helpful description of communicating strategies. My VARK score is: Visual: 14 Aural: 13 Read/Write: 15 Kinesthetic: 10 Based on this questioner my learning style is described as multimodal and it was very interesting for me to learn that ,some of...
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...The VARK Questionnaire NRS 429-VN 0503 The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best? VARK refers to the different learning styles a person identifies with and learns about through taking the questionnaire. Different students will have different learning styles which assist them with obtaining the necessary information. After taking the VARK questionnaire, the results showed more of a connection to a kinesthetic learner with a strong leaning towards visual and audio learning. Understanding learning styles will assist in developing effective learning strategies which will improve learning abilities. The VARK questionnaire is a valuable tool, for assisting the learner, in understanding their preferred learning style, and allows the teacher to be able to adapt and improve their way of conveying information. A personal questionnaire will be assessed in order to help discus the purpose of a VARK questionnaire. Kinesthetic (K) is the preferred learning style with a preference for hands on learning. The kinesthetic learning style involves developing experience and knowledge in the area of learning (Gilakjani, 2012). Instead of listening to a lecture or observing someone else demonstrating the material, the kinesthetic learner prefers doing the learning activity in order to gain the knowledge. They prefer using their hands and body in order to focus and learn. This makes sense because retaining information was found easier when allowed to be able to physically engage in the learning...
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...The VARK Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best? VARK questionnaire is composed of many fundamentals that associated with people’s preferred learning styles. VARK questionnaire help leaners identify their specific learning methods to focus on learning material with important segments. Any profession can use VARK learning methods to teach or introduce study materiel to their associates. The VARK questionnaire is based on four scores and there are five different learning strategies and they are, multimodal, visual, aural, read-write, kinesthetic. When an Individual takes the VARK questionnaire assessment, they will be scored under these four learning methods: visual aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. Each individual learning method are different, also it could be situational to the subject, environment and subject approach. After conducting VARK questionnaire, the results show my learning preference is multimodal. And according to VARK, if you have multiple preferences you are in the majority, as approximately 60% of any population fits that category (please use citation from VARK Multimodal study strategy_). My learning method scores are, visual 11, aural 11, read/write 13, and kinesthetic 11. Multimodal individuals’ shift their learning preferences depend up on matter of subject or certainty of subject. Changing learning preference according to the situation is significant to multimodal learners. According to VARK questionnaire Designer Neil D Fleming, there are two groups...
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...align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of your key strengths (see Column 1 below); these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic. Think about how you can leverage those strengths to be effective in your work, achieve your professional goals, and become a leader in your profession. Step 2: At the beginning of each course in your MBA program, answer the following question either using this template or a narrative format. What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you leverage your strengths? (See Column 2 below). Be as specific as you can, e.g., assume that strength is your analytical ability. You might expect to understand more about macroeconomics so that you can analyze how the housing crisis affects other segments of the economy, such as interest rates or unemployment. At the beginning of the course you are not expected to be an expert in all facets of the course learning; however, you can glean valuable insights from the course description or purpose, course and unit learning objectives, and from unit themes. Step 3: At the end of each course (Unit 6) answer the following questions either using this template or a narrative format. Did you learn what you expected to learn? (See Column 3 below). Was there information or insights that helped you that you didn’t expect...
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...Experience Paper People learn things in many different ways. Some people learn easy and some people learn in hard ways. The thing is that anyone can learn something. I will share an experience that I learned while I was growing up. My Learning Experience I was young when my father taught me to hunt. I really liked hunting because you had to be quite and still to see something to shoot. My father taught me by classical conditioning. I learned to hunt by doing it over and over. Hunting is a skill that has to be learned by making mistakes and learning how to do it better when you make a mistake. I learned by conditioning myself to do the same thing over and over to get a kill. Classical Conditioning Classical Conditioning is a process by which we learn to associate stimuli and, consequently, to anticipate events. This type of learning is the most common type of learning for some people and dogs. The way you learn this way is being able to associate something like a click with good behavior in dogs. The dog does something good then you click a button and then the dog associates the good behavior with the button click. Some people learn this way also. (Spielman, Dumpter, Jenkins, Lacombe, & Lovett, 2014). Operant Conditioning Operant Conditioning is when a person learns to associate a behavior and its consequence. This type of learning can consist of a reward/punishment method. This is the most preferred method for people to learn today. This method is the...
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...Children and Chores. Children and chores are, in my opinion, a good thing. There are several advantages to learning chores throughout youth. Children that learn to do chores growing up have an advantage for later in life. While children are young they can learn to do chores for after they move from their parents home. Chores such as; laundry, yard work and housework can prepare a child for life on their own. Laundry is a great chore for children. It gives them the opportunity to learn how to separate clothes into different loads such as; a white load. One would want to teach them that only white clothes go into that load. Otherwise you could end up with all pink clothing if a red sock were to get mixed in. It would bleed throughout the load and tint all the white clothes. It also gives them the chance to learn how to use the washing machine and the dryer. They can be shown which settings to use for the different loads. Using the dryer, then having them fold the laundry or hang it up will help when they are own their own at college or when they get married. Yard work is also a great chore for children. It gets them outside for exercise also. They can learn how to mow the lawn by learning to work the lawnmower. They can maybe help in a garden or flower bed by pulling weeds. In the fall, they can rake leaves into piles and put them into yard bags. Snow shoveling can be done in the winter, in addition to doing it for a chore they could...
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...My access When I begin to think about community service I think that what good I can do for others. I have always loved helping anyone out in any way. If I had to think of a community service in order to graduate I would pick anything. It wouldn't matter which one I picked and these are my reasons why. To begin, my whole life my family have taught me that I need to learn how I can be helpful to others. My church has taught me as well, we do service for other without them telling us they need help. My church would go around see anyone who may need help with raking their leaves or help putting things away. With no cost to it. I loved to help people out because it makes me feel better about myself. It helps me become closer to others. The...
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...life. I was in a near fatal car accident, air lifted to Baptist Hospital, unconscious, and spent the next 41 days in the hospital. Once I became conscious again, 11 days later, I was moved from the ICU to another part of the hospital, called the STICHT Center, and then I had to learn how to do everything again. This tragic accident has not only made me a stronger person but it has made me appreciate the simplicities in life a little more. I ran a stop sign and was t-boned in the passenger side; I then hit the median, flipped and ran into a telephone pole. That was the instance that changed my life, forever. At that time I inquired a Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, and that was why I had to learn how to do everything again. It was almost like a stroke, only one side of my body was damaged, and that was my right side. When I was in the ICU on life support my family tells me that I moved my left side just fine but I could not move my right side at all. Finally, in the ICU, I started to move my right leg a little. It was...
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...servant-leaders who really attend to others and are beacons of hope in our search for a world society where justice, fairness, care for the weaker members of our communities, and love flourish. The call for leaders who genuinely serve their people is obvious in social and political communities. We can see it equally in the economic sphere, in business organisations or corporations. The high turnover of staff in many work places suggests that people are looking for what Lance Secretan, a Canadian guru on leadership, calls ‘soul space’[1] – an environment where they will not simply be cogs in the wheel of production but can live full and happy lives. In my book, Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela[2], published in March 2006, I have attempted to present through stories the type of leadership that will take our world a higher ground.[3] What is so extraordinary about Mr Mandela’s style and practice of leadership is that it crosses the boundaries of culture, gender, race, religion and age. Madiba (as he is fondly referred to in his home country) has done so in a society that was once more polarized than any other – one the world expected to explode along racial and ethnic lines. That it did not was largely due to this extraordinary man and his unique leadership style. What is equally fascinating about Madiba is the fact that each person that has encountered, in one form or another, his leadership feels personally attended to and served. Mr Mandela’s leadership transforms...
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...Exploratory: Do Video Games Have Negative Effects on Users? The form of entertainment is always changing with the shift in culture and advances in technology. One of the most popular forms of entertainment today is the use of video games. Video games have gotten more and more popular over the years. The use of them over a period of time can have a timely effect on the user just like any drug someone uses or any sport someone plays. Can they be positive effects or negative effects? Some people believe that video games are a bad influence and do nothing but harm to the gamer, which is the person who is playing the video game. Media in the news usually focuses on the negatives of video game use, completely leaving out the positives of it. If someone were to go up and ask ten parents if they think video games were bad or good for children or adolescents they would probably say bad, but there is actually some benefits to playing video games that can be determined. In a blog called “10 benefits of Playing Video Games” it shows a list of the ten benefits a person can get from playing video games such as boost cognitive health, improve hand eye coordination, and have sharper image (http://www.tastyhuman.com/10-benefits-of-playing-video-games/). I was very surprised to see such a long convincing list of benefits from video games. The reason why video games help cognitive health is because the majority of games require players to think tactically and make quick decisions. The article...
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...things, just like I do myself. One may find it easier to have things explained to them in great detail, while another may learn best from visual aspects like diagrams and pictures. Each style is unique and works for others that best suits them in how they tend to acquire information. Forms like active, reflective, sensing, intuitive, visual, verbal, sequential and global are the different terms that describe how one may learn. Each one of these terms have very informative information about what they are and how they contribute to someone’s learning style. I myself lean more toward active, sensing, visual, and sequential...
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...knowledge that is required to get to this level. Best of all, you need: · · | No Experience | | No Private Lessons | And, you can work at your own pace. Imagine what it would be like to finally be able to sit down at the piano and play any song you can think of in a few minutes. Or, how about being able to make up songs that really sound good and impress others that hear them. You will finally be able to: | Hear a song and be able to figure out this tune by ear in a few minutes | | Sing a tune, and almost instantly figure it out on the piano | | Play songs without having sheet music in front of you | | Play for a band | | Play and impress friends | | Learn this valuable information without having to pay $50 or more an hour for weekly private piano lessons | This is possible. More Amazingly, this is easy to learn. As a matter of fact, once you start learning how to do this, you will be shocked at how easy it is. Well, you're probably thinking that this all sounds great, but how do I know this isn't just hype? I will show you a few examples of what I am talking about in a few minutes. My methods are taught at Colleges and Universities all over the world. You will learn the same information, but will not have to spend years and lots of...
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...Sample paragraph (what do I expect to get out of this class) “Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning” –Paulo Freire. English class is a great way to help learn and focus yourself into your career. It is a great learning opportunity to have in order to engage in about anything. It helps us underline life and sought after it. I expect to learn a lot from English class. I want to learn how to better my writing. For example I would like to better my grammar and have strong thesis statements. I want to become a better reader and seek out more knowledge from reading. I want to discover new fascinating books. I want to learn how to write essays that intrigue the reader and want them to read more. I want to learn how to think critically and how to express my ideas clearly. I would like to learn how to do research and learn about resources I never knew existed. Better yet, I would love to take this class and expect that I take all the knowledge I have learnt and pursue it into my career. As a nursing student English is a very key essential. It helps us with communication, learning how to write down care plans and helps with medication deliveries. The field of nursing requires a great deal of swift, accurate writing. I will need to fill out reports and charts correctly and completely. I will record interactions with doctors and patients fairly. In addition, I must always be prepared to defend the information I record. English class...
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...something that I was always taught to be essential to become successful in life. My learning preference is multimodal, which means having several different ways of learning. People who have the same learning preference as me might take longer gathering information, but as a result we often have a deeper and broader understanding. I am a horrible procrastinator but this is because I take longer to make decisions and studies show that this might be better because of breadth. I learn easily by looking at pictures, listening to music and seeing examples of what I am being taught otherwise is hard for me to just hear a professor or anybody just talk and not show examples. When I first came to this country I had to take ESL classes in order to be able to take other courses, these classes helped me with my learning style since I had to look at a lot of pictures to learn what it meant in English. I had to confront my fair of speaking a foreign language. When I am in my classes I barely pay attention if they are not pictures of what I am being taught except if is math or ITEC but other than that I feel like there is no eye entertainment in the classes that can influence me into learning the subject. It might sound as a bad idea to listen to music while studying or doing homework but it actually helps me a lot while for others is disturbing. Though I rather listen to loud music while I do my math homework or write an essay but I cannot listen to the same loud music if I am studying for...
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...journey is self- efficacy. How well the child develops this skill will help for many other such as self-regulation. The concept of self-efficacy is how well we know ourselves and how confident are we to complete certain task. For instance when baby learn to walk for the first time we the parents and teacher help and contribute to build the self- efficacy on the child. Just the simple fact that we encourage them every day that yes you can do it. Or taking them by the hand and helping the child with his or her first steps that builds their self-efficacy to go beyond and do more than just walking. In a first grade setting class by teaching the students the sounds of the alphabet that builds their self-efficacy that students eventually learn how to read and write and that makes them want to learn more new things. Influence Growing up what help me develop my high and low self-efficacy would have to be the fact that I am the seven child of ten siblings. Everything my older siblings were learning I wanted to do as well. By the time I started school my self-efficacy was so high that I was ready to conquer the world. There were times that I did have low self-efficacy and they were pretty much in my middle school years and high school years. I think this happen because all my elementary school years were done in Spanish. By the time I was expose to the English language I was 12 years old so it was hard to learn a new language. I am not embarrass to say it I still have low self-efficacy...
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