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By Dave Batty

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1. You might discover you are smarter than you think!

2. The better you understand your learning style, the greater is your potential to be a success at Teen Challenge.

3. The more you understand learning styles, the more effective you will be at helping TC students become successful

4. It builds self-confidence

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Learning about learning styles is hard work.


MythMyth: Everyone learns just like me.

We all learn the same way.

If you were a good student, you would learn the way I do.

TruthTruth: Not everyone learns like you do.


If God were teaching this workshop, what would He say is the foundation for learning.

Is it memorizing facts?Matthew 7:24-27


Learning is the path to wisdom if you learn God’s truth and then put it into action

Personal application is the foundation for life, for learning


1. Mind Styles

2. How do you concentrate?

3. How do you remember?

4. How do you process information?

5. How smart are you?


Learning is a discipline, not a gift

How do people become great?

Learning styles must be brought into the discipline of learning


A. Perception—How do you view the world?

Perception has to do with taking information into your brain


A. Perception—How do you view the world?

1. Concrete

2. Abstract

Everyone uses both perception abilities every day. But we are often more comfortable using one more than the other.


A. Perception—How do you view the world?1. Concrete2. Abstract

B. Ordering—How you use the information you perceive

1. Sequential

2. Random


Perception / Ordering1.Concrete Sequential2.Abstract Sequential3.Concrete Random4.Abstract Random

Book—The Way They Learn--Cynthia Tobias


This is another layer of learning styles

This is all about environmental preferences

What is the ideal environment where you can concentrate the best in studying and learning?


Not all of these environmental issues have the same importance to everyone.

What is perfect for you is dysfunctional for someone else. That’s OK!


How do you concentrate? Lots of options

Mind Styles 4 combinations



This is all about how you best learn and remember what you have learned.


Remembering has to do with how we perceive something

with one or more of our 5 senses and how those

senses help us to understand and remember that experience or information.


Three major methods of remembering.

A. HearingB. SeeingC. Doing something physically with what you are learning. (Kinesthetic)


Our brain processes things differently when we are high or drunk than when we are sober.


When we are sober, we may have no conscious memories of how we behaved when we were under the influence of drugs or alcohol.


How do you remember? Hearing, Seeing, Doing





This is all about how we take in information and communicate that to others

Seeing the world from our own frame of reference


Two people can observe the same event and come away with very different versions of what actually happened


Two ways of gathering and processing this information

1.Analytic

2.Global


a. Takes in details

b. Likes things ordered, step-by-step

c. Often values facts over feelings

d. Prefers to finish one thing at a time

e. Logical

f. Finds facts, but sometimes misses the main idea.


a. Sees the big picture

b. Sees relationships

c. Reads between the lines

d. Sees many options

e. Easily thinks outside the box

f. Often likes to be involved in group learning experience

g. Flexible


h. Often skip steps

i. Sometimes fail to place value in details

j. From the view of the analytic, this person often appears to be disorganized.

Most schools operate with the analytical approach to learning

Globals are misfits


How do you process info? Analytical, Global

How do you remember? Hearing, Seeing, Doing




How do you measure smartness?

Who decides if you are smart?


1. Linguistic—verbal abilities

2. Logical-Mathematical

3. Spatial

4. Musical

5. Bodily-Kinesthetic

6. Interpersonal

7. Intrapersonal


A. Become aware of your own learning style, and of others

B. Opposite camps—don’t be negative towards those who are different from you

C. Appreciate your strengths and weaknesses—do the same with others

D. Don’t use your learning style to make excuses

E. Style flex—intentionally use other learning styles -become more flexible in how you

learn


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