Facilitating Learning
Facilitating Learning
Facilitating Learning
Styles
Why do we need to understand
how our students learn?
Hilliard describes “learning styles” as the
sum of the patterns of how
individuals develop habitual ways of
responding to experience
Howard Gardner identified nine kinds of
intelligences that individuals may have.
Learning/Thinking Styles
1. Sensory preferences
2. Global-analytic continuum
Sensory preferences
a. Visual-iconic
b. Visual-symbolic
Visual-iconic
Those who prefer this form of input are more
interested in visual imagery such as film, graphic
displays, or pictures in order to solidify learning.
Visual-symbolic
Those who prefer this form of input feel
comfortable with abstract symbolism such as
mathematical formulae or the written word.
2. Auditory Learners
a. The Listeners
b. The Talkers
a.The Listeners
Analytic
-Analytic thinkers tend toward the linear,
step-by-step process of learning.
Global
-Global thinkers lean towards non-linear thought.
Several theorists have tied the global-analytic
continuum to the left-brain/right-brain
continuum. In accord with Roger Sperry’s
model, the left-brained dominant individual
is portrayed as the linear (analytic), verbal,
mathematical thinker while the right-brained
person is on who is viewed as global, non-
linear and holistic in thought preferences.
Successive Processor (left brain) prefers to
learn in a step-by-step sequential format,
specific to general.