Piccasso Head

My learning styles are verbal and visual. These were my top two learning styles.


My position on learning styles is that yes I know that they do exist, but the only problem is that when you are a teacher or student in a classroom it is hard to make sure that every student truly understands the concept that you are trying to teach them. Learning styles are important in class rooms but as I read in one of the articles it said that even if learning styles may not work, they are still helpful to the teachers to better understand how to maybe teach a lesson or do different things for the lesson. (Glenn, 2009) Also in another article that I have read I found a saying that was talking about that learning styles are points along a scale that help us see the different learning styles, but we shouldn't single people out because of their learning styles. (Clark, 2000)

Learning styles will help me with my teaching in a class room because even though not everyone is the same type of learner all the students can learn just some favor different methods than others. So what I will try to do is that get a sense of the way my students will want to learn in the class and how will be the best way to teach them and everything and then base my teaching off that. If I can get all of my students involved in class and they show that they are learning better then it shows that my method is working. So many teachers have different ways they would be approaching this situation, but the best way in my opinion is to just see the way your students would like to be taught. Reason is because not every class you have will want to be taught the same way.

References:
Glenn, D. (2009, December 15). Matching teaching style to learning style may not help students. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to-/49497/

Clark, D. (2000, May 29). Learning styles . Retrieved from http://nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/styles.html