Learning Styles and Strategies
My learning style is generally well balanced between active, reflective, sensing and intuitive learning. However, I have a more moderate preference toward the visual learning over verbal and the sequential over global learning.
The results of my test did not surprise me. I realize that I comprehend better when shown how to do something over reading directions from a text. I feel the assessment of my test was very valid and the questions that were asked were relative to the process. I believe that my test results were very accurate.
As a learner the instructional strategies that work best for me are the visual along with sequential and I would use these in a classroom with games, graphs, pictures, charts, films, and other tools.
To help students that do not learn in the same way, an instructor must incorporate other strategies in the classroom to accommodate each of the different learning styles. This would include using the reflective learning style by giving the student a chance to think about a subject and come to a conclusion to bring to class a discussion. It would also include addressing the verbal learning style by assigning reading material of different types the student could address in class.
An evaluation quiz could be used in the classroom utilizing each learning style to access the different learning styles of the students, giving the instructor information about her students learning skills. This information could then be used to better structure the class material so that each student is accommodated.
There are many different technologies out there that can be helpful in today’s classroom to address the different learning skills of students.
A big component of my learning style is hands-on experience; learning while doing. This usually involved someone with more experience instructing me as I performed the task. Through the hands-on approach, I picked-up the knowledge and gained proficiency as I went along. My learning style also involved standard classroom instruction, which usually meant listening to lectures and taking notes. My note taking was not the best so in order to make up for what I lacked in note taking, I would read the textbooks repeatedly until I understood what I was reading. I learned that in order for me to get a complete understanding from my readings and notes, there had to be a lot great deal of repetition ...
The society is suggested to be one obsessed with wealth, alcohol, and social status. Which unsurprisingly down spiraled to Neddy Merrill’s ultimate downfall. Cheever introduces the story by describing the societies overindulgence in alcohol, “I drank too much last night— you might have heard it whispered by the parishioners (or)—the priest himself” (Cheever 215). Therefore, indicating that it was a very common habit among the society as a whole, even the most respectable play a part. It is very apparent that the society perceived in the story is that of “prosperous men and woman” who have high standards in regards to possessions (Cheever 217). Wealth is a determinant of social status and respectability in his culture. Neddy’s journey starts well pampered by drinks,...
John Cheever, a short story writer was born in Massachusetts in 1912. His father lost his business during the Great Depression and his mother “to her younger son’s extravagant shame, owned a gift shop in Quincy”(Wolff, Suburban Suffering). At a very young age Cheever was introduced to alcoholism, his father in despair after losing his job and business, turned to alcohol. After Cheever got kicked out of his school, Thayer Academy at 17,a year later his got his first story published in The New Republic. In 1941 he got married to his wife, Mary and later they had three children, then they moved to the suburbs. As irony would have it Cheever lived in the place he often mocks his many of his short stories, including “The Swimmer”. Although in his stories he seems to ridicule the suburbs he was actually “crazy about the suburbs”(Berger, Living in Suburbia), contradicting just about everything Cheever wrote. His wife later goes on to describe that he wanted everyone’s approval in the suburbs because he came from a bad background. Although at first his family denied that Cheever had a drinking problem, but they later admitted that he was a alcoholic. His children felt he wasn’t a good father and that they were not his main...
John Steinbeck is considered one of the most influential and respected prewar and postwar authors of all time. His national and international success with novels such as Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath earned him the Nobel Peace prize for literature in 1962 which marked the end of an amazing writer. Steinbeck’s works shared common themes, but a majority of his renowned works were set right in his childhood backyard in the Salinas valley and Monterey bay area. His short story collection The Long Valley is a prime example of his childhood influence in his setting as well as the common themes used throughout his works. John Steinbeck’s success is still apparent today in modern day classrooms around the world, a famous and renowned author many years after his time.
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Jack London is the name you can hear everywhere, his writing appealed to millions of people all around the world. London was an American novelist and short-story writer, who wrote passionately about questions of life and death, surviving. The writer had a lot of adventures, experienced the life at sea, or in Alaska, or in the fields and factories of California, all of these influenced his writing style. Jack London descended from the family of his mother Flora and astrologer and journalist William Chaney. The writer has got his education by himself and with help of a librarian Ina Coolbrith - he has a passion to read books at public libraries. Later in life, Jack finally graduated from high school in Oakland. Jack London's work carrier was so variable, he has been a laborer, factory worker, and oyster pirate on the San Francisco Bay, member of the California Fish Patrol, sailor, railroad hob, and gold prospector. Yes, gold prospecting was the big part of his life, when the young writer with his brother-in-law sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he would set his first successful stories. Jack London was a hard-worker, he tried never miss his early morning 1,000-word writing stint, what helped him to write over fifty books between 1900 and 1916. In addition to it, he corresponded with his readers, and made huge researches for improving his writing style, what is, obviously, genius. The consequences of such a hard work became the fact that Jack London had become the best selling, highest paid and most popular American author of his time. Many authors and social advocates have been inspired by Jack London’s heartfelt prose, and readers travel and experience so much through his books.
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Born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, John Ernst Steinbeck is one of the world’s most popular authors. Steinbeck’s American classics depict portraits of the conditions of human life, struggles and triumphs. He is commonly known for his novels The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, and novella Of Mice and Men. “He was an intellectual, passionately interested in his odd little inventions, in jazz, in politics, in philosophy, history, and myth” (“John Steinbeck, American Writer”). John Steinbeck experienced several struggles and rejections in order to be successful and have his books published the way he wanted them to. Steinbeck experienced an interesting life full of stories, controversy, adventure, love, and loss.
...his story the main message that life is short and he succeeded by using point of view, setting and symbolism. “The Swimmer” can teach many readers not to waste valuable time like Neddy did when drinking, caring about insincere relationships among social status, and taking his family for granted. Cheever’s usage of literary elements not only displays the theme of “The Swimmer”, but also organizes passages of events for the reader to experience throughout the story. John Cheever once said, “The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness” (Good Reads). He perfectly illustrates this objective in “The Swimmer.”
Learning is a process that individuals face every day, whether it is in classroom, at work, or surfing the Internet, but each person has a particular style in which they prefer to accomplish this learning. An individual’s learning style is the manner in which that person finds learning to be the easiest for them, and while many individuals have a primary style, everyone uses all the learning styles in various combinations throughout their day and life.
John Cheever was born on May, 27th in 1912. He was an American short story writer and novelist. He will be remained remembered by the works such as the short stories “The Swimmer”, “The Enormous Radio”, “Goodbye, My Brother”, “The Five-Forty-Eight”, “The Country Husband” and also by the novels “The Wapshot Scandal”, “The Wapshot Chronicle”, “Bullet Park”, “Falconer” etc.
Adjusting learning and studying strategies can be a fast easy way to improve a college grade from a B to an A. Through studies of learning styles I have been able to decipher my learning types. I am a visual learner, have an integrated brain, meaning I use both hemispheres, and ranked highest in bodily-kinesthetic and logic-mathematical intelligence.
Thought out our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. This can be attributed to everyone’s different multiple intelligences or learning styles. A persons learning style is the method though which they gain information about their environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to know these styles, so we can reach each of our students and use all of the necessary methods.
Each person has his or her own style of learning. Learning styles include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. In the questionnaire, I learned that I am very much a visual learner. This reflection will show what I have learned about my unique learning style and how understanding learning styles of the children I teach will be helpful as I become a teacher.
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