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The Learning Styles in Teaching
(Adapted from, "Learning Styles & Strategies," Silver & Hanson, 1996)

Homework:
ST - Needs the hw to be modelled in class with practice time provided. The hw must be clear. Students need to restate and write down the hw.

NT - Needs the hw to be challenging and curiosity-provoking. NT learners dislike rote and repetitious tasks. NT learners enjoy having to defend a conclusion.

SF - Also needs the hw to be modelled in class, but the practice needs to be done in partnerships. SF learners need to ask questions of peers and teacher.

NF - Needs the hw to be stimulating and evocative of their creative potential. The hw should ask that existing content be reorganized and applied in creative and original ways.

Anticipatory Set:
ST - What is to be learned and how they will be tested. The teacher presents the objectives, explains the practice, and sets times for performance.

NT - The teacher asks questions that stimulate curiosity or the solving of problems.

SF - The teacher tells a story or asks about the learners' experiences that parallel the content.

NF - The teacher challenges the learner to make new and original applications.

Tasks:
ST - True/false, factual, demonstrates sequences, and recitation.

NT - Analytical, reasonable, evidential, evaluative, and inferential.

SF - Cooperative, emphasize verbal interaction, sharing, and team membership.

NF - Looking for alternatives, creative, new applications, artistic, and inventive.

Question Style:
ST - Who, what, where, when, and sometimes how. How, when it asks to repeat a practiced skill. Focus on accuracy, sequence and demonstrability.

NT - How, in the sense of solving a problem, and why. Compare and contrast, evaluate, summarize, induce, deduce, and hypothesize.

SF - "What has your experience been?" "How do you feel about ...?" Has to do with feelings, persnoal experiences, self-awareness, and self-concept.

NF - "What might have happened if ...?" Also questions that ask to draw, paint, dramatize, invent, alter, and imagine.

Assessment:
ST - Emphasis on recall, demonstration and accuracy.

NT - Emphasis on elegance of the argument, citation of evidence and reasoning process.

SF - Emphasis on involvement, articulation of ideas and feelings, and relating content to one's own life.

NF - Emphasis on making applications demonstrating deep understanding.

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