can adjust communication to a form best received by the other individual. The first step in mastering these skills is to understand learning styles. According to Keys to College Studying, there are eight different learning styles or multiple intelligences. Three of these, and the three that I have heard about most often, are Verbal/Linguistic, Visual/Spatial, and Bodily/Kinesthetic. Verbal/Linguistic learners have the ability to communicate through language. Their strengths include listening, reading
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Instructions: Please answer the following questions in the spaces provided below. There is no right or wrong answers, and there are no minimum or maximum word limits for your answers. You will discuss your answers with your advisor when you meet over the phone for your curriculum planning session. Be sure to fill in all of the fields below. When you finish, save the document with your first initial and last name in the file name (e.g., jsmith_reflection.doc). Then send the document to your faculty
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Understanding your Learning Style Description of this Guide This is a brief overview of learning styles, their importance in Higher Education, and tips for making best use of your natural style. Learning Outcomes 1. Realise that there are many different learning styles 2. Discover resources where you can assess your learning style 3. Realise there are strategies you can use to make best use of your natural learning style Contents 1. Why tell me now? 2. What are learning styles
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Independent learning and the expert learner Introduction This resource is intended to: • • describe the characteristics of independent learning draw parallels and differences between the ‘independent’ and the ‘expert’ learner. A definition of independent learning One definition of independent learning or ‘autonomy’ in learning is: “…the ability to take charge of one’s learning” H. Holec, 1981 Independent learning is usually developed throughout a learner’s time at school or college to give
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Intelligence-Practical or Emotional Cynthia Ward PSY/201 March 24, 2013 Kathy West Intelligence-Practical or Emotional General intelligence has been defined in different ways but is a trait to have that is important. What is intelligence? Intelligence is defined as “the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations (2) the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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Introduction “You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”. This Plato’s adage of learning from management games is gathered whenever games are used as an educational tool. In past years, many business schools have been working on for changes in the way of teaching: like real life applications, case studies, making them experience real challenges in business, which all can be explained as “Learning by Doing”. Teaching itself is opening ways for students like the
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Associate Level Material Appendix G Ethical Actions Worksheet Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: * Was there anything in either the University of Phoenix Student Code of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic Integrity that surprised you? If so, what was it? Why were you surprised? If not, why not? * * While reading the University of Phoenix’s Code of Academic Integrity, the only thing that surprised me was the act of Self-plagiarism
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Associate Level Material Appendix B Piaget Worksheet Directions: Review Module 26 of Psychology and Your Life. Complete the matrix below and answer the questions that follow. Cognitive Stage Age Range Major Characteristics Sensorimotor Stage Birth to 2 years Children learn from movements, they learn that things continue without their presence. Preoperational Stage 2 years to 7 years of age. Developing language and symbolic thinking. They are focused on the present, rather than abstract
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Assessment of Learning Style Family Centered Health Promotion Grand Canyon University, Nursing 429V Professor Holmes Julie Smith, RN Before one can decide what their VARK score is, it may be important to understand what each letter in the acronym means. The V in VARK stands for visual, A for auditory, R for reading and writing and finally the K for kinaesthetic. Each of these letters represent an individual’s preferred method of learning new information. With a total VARK score of 48, I
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Summary on Career Interest Profiler and Job Market Research Yamilet Jorlen UNIV/101 January 16, 2013 I have learned a lot using the Career Interest Profiler and Job Market Research tool. I was able to mentally see what sorts of activities really grab my interest and areas I might find exciting in a career. I was able to learn how my interests might help me explore different careers to make a better career decision. While interest play a key role in identifying occupations other traits such
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