Individual Learning Style This Report Is a Term Paper

Individual Learning Style

This report is a self-assessment and reflection of my personal learning style. The report assesses my strengths and opportunities for growth as well as creating an improvement strategy which is solely based on the results of my learning style assessment. Through a free internet learning style web site, I discovered that my learning style is called Interpersonal Intelligence. The report will also provide some background on the various learning styles and provide a rough definition.

Learning Styles

Learning styles are the basic ways humans are programmed to best learn. There are various ways or styles of learning and each man, woman and child, has either one specific style or a combination of styles that help them acquire knowledge and experiences. This information is great for teachers and parents because if a child is actively engaged in the learning process they tend to feel more confident and therefore more empowered. If the teacher of person passing on an experience can teach or presents in a way that is best suited for the audience, they are more likely to be understood and therefore they seem as though they are better teachers. "The education literature suggests that students who are actively engaged in the learning process will be more likely to achieve success." (Blackmore, 1996)

It is very important to getting a student involved in his or her own learning. Therefore, the teacher must understand learning styles so he or she can be best prepared to get the message across. In addition, if a teacher can utilize various teaching methodologies depending on the material being taught, students are more likely to learn. "Schroeder points out that the "typical" student learning style profile is changing on campuses today and there is a much greater variation in the range of learning style preferences to be considered. Therefore it would be wise to understand what learning style preferences are, and how to address them when preparing instructional materials for adults." (Blackmore, 1996)

Types of Styles

Humans tend to develop behaviors towards the process of learning. To understand the learning process it is best to consider learning style preferences which can be described as:

Cognition

Conceptualization

Affective

Cognitive means that each person uses some consciously or unconsciously learning style and it is driven by the cognitive process in the brain. Conceptualization is how we humans compute information. Affective refers to a person's inner drive or motivation in regard to the decision making process. Learners can also be classified in to specific categories which include:

Visual Learners

Auditory Learners

Tactile Learners

Visual people tend to use sight over touch and hearing. In other words, a visual learner is someone who may use body language to interpret a meaning that may not have been discussed verbally. Auditory learners on the other hand would use the act of listening to learn. Tactile learners would utilize the act of touching to best learn. Consider that we all went though a phase in our infancy where touch was the best learning style.

There were many individuals who have contribute to the learning style philosophy but the most influence…