Creating and Using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Creating and Using Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Kenosha Unified School DistrictTechnology CampPam BlackJune 21, 2010

Presentation Goals

•Bring background and prior knowledge to the conscious level

• Gather information about our own learning profiles and how they impact our instruction

• Learn techniques for assessing our students’ learning profiles in relationship to our instruction and the use of technology

•Change the way instructional planning is done

•Take us out of our comfort zone.

What is a Learning Profiles?

A multi-faceted picture of how a Person

thinks and learns

Learning Profiles

Frames for understanding how students learn and process information

Learning style is the natural way a person:Takes in informationProcesses information through the sensesRemembers informationApproaches learning

Sharing Learning StylesActivity #1

Sharing Learning StylesActivity #1—Honoring All

Beach Balls

•Concrete/random

•Accommodator

•Self-expressive

•dynamic

Puppies

•Abstract/random

•Diverger

•Interpersonal

•Imaginative

Microscopes

•Abstract/sequential

•Assimilator

•Understanding

•Analytical

Clipboards

•Concrete/sequential

•Converger

•Mastery

•Commonsense

Learning Profiles


Learning style:

Beach Ball…Clipboard…Microscope…Puppy

Visual

Sharing Learning StylesActivity #2

Visual

Tactile/Kinesthetic

Auditory

Visual Learners

Generally think in terms of pictures.

Remember things best by seeing something written.

Prefers to see things written down in a handout, text or on the overhead.

Find maps, graphs, charts, and other visual learning tools to be extremely effective.

Auditory Learners

Learn best by listening and talking aloud.

Typically notice and remember sounds. Good at remembering things that they

hear. Good with words and language. Often read to themselves as they study. Often distracted by noise and sounds.

Tactile Learners

Remember what they DO, what they experience with their hands or bodies (movement and touch).

Enjoy using tools or lessons which involve active/practical participation.

Can remember how to do things after they've done them once (motor memory).

Have good motor coordination.

Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners

Typically learn best by doing. Naturally good at physical activities like

sports and dance. Enjoy learning through hands-on methods. Typically like how-to guides and action-adventure

stories. Might pace while on the phone or take breaks from

studying to get up and move around.

Some kinesthetic learners seem fidgety, having a hard time sitting

still in class.

Learning Profiles


Learning style:

Beach Ball…Clipboard…Microscope…Puppy Visual...Auditory…Tactile…Kinesthetic

Multiple Intelligences

The Whole LearnerMultiple Views

Learning Styles Multiple IntelligencesProcess oriented-seeks to see how a person processes information through the senses.

Cognitive Model– seeks to describe how a person uses their intelligence to solve problems and create products

Auditory LearnersVisual LearnersTactile learnersKinesthetic LearnersTactile/Kinesthetic learners

Verbal/LinguisticLogical/mathematicalInterpersonalMusical/rhythimicIntrapersonalVisual/spatialBodily/kinestheticnaturalist

Multiple Intelligences: How are you smart?

Word

Smart

Logic SmartPicture Smart

Body Smart

Music Smart

Self

Smart

People Smart

Nature

Smart

Numbers &patterns

Touch, movement, manipulatives

Rhythm, melody, patterned sound, song, dance

Graphic images&

organizers, color and art

Sharing, cooperating, relating, brainstorming,

interviewing

Working alone, self-paced, individual projects, metacognitive thinking

Outdoors learning, classifying, noticing patterns in the world

Reading, writing, speaking, & listening

Multiple Intelligences: Activity #3

How are you intelligent?

What is your unique profile?

Learning Profiles

What makes up a learning profile?


Learning style: Beach Ball…Clipboard…Microscope…Puppy Visual...Auditory…Tactile…Kinesthetic

•Multiple Intelligences:Verbal/linguistic…Logical/mathematical…Interpersonal…Intrapersonal…Visual/spatial…Musical/rhythmic…Bodily/kinesthetic…Naturalist

•Lateral Dominance

Lateral Dominance Profiles

Learning Equation

(Eye + Ears + Hands + Feet) + Brain = Learning sensing organs + processing organ = learning


Activity #4

Learning Equation

(Eye + Ears + Hands + Feet) + Brain = Learning sensing organs + processing organ = learning


Why look at lateral dominance profiles?1. Identifies the learning path of least resistance.

2. When under stress or learning new information the learning path of least resistance is best.

3. Other pathways may not be accessible.

4. Organization of learners in the classroom.

--Visual in front

--Auditory in next row (right ear dominants on left side/left ear dominants on right side.)

--Gestalt fully in back with manipulatives.

Learning Profiles





•Lateral Dominance Eye…Ear…Hand…Foot…Brain

•Other critical factors

Other critical factors that are part of a learning profile

GENDER…processing of information

…language

…space

…movement

…hearing

…inter/intrapersonal

…emotion

Other critical factors that are part of a learning profile

RACE and CultureEye contactVerbalizationCommunity or IndividualFocus on EducationRelevance of CurriculumRelationships

What are Learning Profiles?





•Lateral Dominance Eye…Ear…Hand…Foot…Brain

•Other Critical Factors Gender…Race….Culture

Learning Profiles in the Classroom

Know Your Learners

And

Yourself

Rubric for knowing the learners in your classroom

Non-use Beginning

Routine Refined

No attempts made to Identify the uniqueness of learners

Students’ learning profiles—learning styles, multiple intelligences and learning preferences are explored

Provides a variety of assessment and instructional practices to routinely respect student learning profiles

Allow students uniqueness to drive instructional practices.

Using Learning Profiles in the Classroom Step I

Discover and know your own learning style and multiple intelligence strengths: Review your learning style multiple intelligences and lateral dominance

screenings Go deeper:http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lsi/lsiframe.html

1. Take the Learning Styles Test I and II2. Take the Multiple Intelligence Assessment3. Explore the information provided on your learning style,

multiple intelligence strengths and dominance factors. 4. Explore your gender, racial and culturally impacted learning

factors. Discover your students learning profiles—learning styles and/or multiple

intelligences and/or lateral dominances. Take into account the other critical factors—gender, race and culture

Learning Profiles in the Classroom

A Step Further:Connecting to Technology

Why use learning profiles in the classroom?

Tapping into the routes for learning promotes efficient and effective learning for students.

Helping students understand their modes of learning that work best for them ensures lifetime learning.

Offering options allows each learner to find a good learning fit in the classroom

Tomlinson, 2001

Implement Strategies that Support

Learning Differences for all: No one technology is suited for all students and all curriculum. Auditory learners are the only students who excel in lecture based learning. Add alternatives to current assignments Use all the technology you have been introduced to in this class and more students will be more successful.

Using Computers to tap into Visual-Auditory-Tactile/Kinesthetic learning styles

Visual Auditory Tactile/Kinesthetic

Easy access to pictures, images, graphic organizers, mind-maps, concept maps, videos.

Encourages artistic expression

Access to world of words Word processingClip art Inspirations Power Point U Tube Email

Communicate with people around the world about ideas

Free translation software allows for dialogue around the world.

Listening to music—period music. Textbooks on

the webSkypeAudio and video

taping

Touching the keyboard helps input and remember the information.

Use of body activity (force/sense of touch)—Document Camera—input/demonstrate students' written work.Tutorials on the web.Using the mouse/keyboard accesses the kinesthetic/tactile receptors in the brainStudents using flip chartsActive Expression

Other Technology that taps into multiple learning styles

Animation programs—visual, kinestheticDigital cameras—kinesthetic and visualPromethium boards—kinesthetic, visual

and auditoryMultimedia (combine video, sound, text,

graphics)—engages all learning style.

Lesson Planningfor Student Engagement

Differentiation Lesson provides several learning options (different paths to learning)

which help students take in information and make sense of concepts and skills.

Access to a variety of materials which target different learning preferences/reading abilities.

Activities that target auditory, visual and kinesthetic learners Stations for inquiry-based, independent learning activities Create activities that vary in level of complexity and degree of abstract

thinking required. Flexible grouping to group and regroup students based on factors

including content, ability and assessment results. Choice of projects that reflect a variety of learning styles and interests Multiple ways to demonstrate what they know. Active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing

learning and assess their own progress.

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Creating and Using Learning Profiles in the Classroom