Learning Styles

This week’s class was very interesting for me because I've never really known which learning style I preferred.  I know, I know it sounds silly but if you look at my results from the quiz we took in class I had two 5’s and two 3’s, so I suppose I prefer all four at some point, I'm not really sure what to think of it.  I remember when we went over this last year in our recitation class too and it was pretty much the same, no one style specifically stood out for me.  I like to think my learning styles are kinesthetic and visual because that’s how I learned best when doing my jobs back at home and at Hawthorn.  After I watch someone do something and then try it out for myself I feel like the more I do it the more I’ll get better at it and I like it that way.  I don’t think I can learn just by reading something, I feel like I work better when after if I do read it I apply it because doing whatever makes me learn better.  I like hands on activities. 

I’ll use a past experience as an example.  So when I was younger I used to dance, and when you’re learning a new routine we always watch the teacher and have them show it to us then we repeat what they do because just reading the whole dance on paper would be hard for all of us to pick up.  So I guess I’ve grown up with learning how to do that, watching someone do something then putting myself in their shoes and applying it myself.  I really hope that makes sense because it made sense in my head!

We did a certain activity last year in our recitation and I don’t remember literally everything but I want to try to do that activity with my students next year and hopefully they will be able to tell which learning style they prefer best.