Learning Styles definition

Learning Styles. Students know how to formulate critical questions and generalize from their findings. They are able to identify the big, essential questions about their learning. They know how to collaborate and cooperate with each other.” Xxxxxxxxx students have developed the habits of good learners that will hold them in good stead as they continue in their studies, irrespective of content. Teacher Proficiency and Professional Development • Student-centered Learning: ….Critical in this model are teachers as facilitators and developers of the learning experience and students as workers engaged in higher order skills of hypothesizing, inquiring, re- searching, synthesizing, and metacognitive tasks. • Collaboration: …the school’s culture has changed the way they teach. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, grade 4, noted, “It changed the way I look at teaching. We understand that it is important to talk to and work with each other.” • Confidence Teaching Science: …Xxxxxxxxx staff members are comfortable in their role as problem framers and facilitators, and in their role as science teachers, a comfort level not usually felt by elemen- tary school teachers… Jefferson Science Magnet School classroom teachers reported a stronger belief in their skills and their expectations about student outcomes because of their teaching of science. Essential Conditions Xxxxxxxxx’x successes are derived from a synergistic combination of factors, which are likely to be neces- sary components of any dissemination model. • District commitment including vision, administra- tion and money, which enables planning, organization and implementation. Introduction The Lone Pine Foundation Academic Gain Award rec- ognizes public elementary schools that have demon- strated significant improvement in student perfor- xxxxx on the CT Mastery Tests. All 151 public ele- mentary schools in Fairfield County are considered. • Trustworthy “building” administration with vision and leadership, emphasizing high academic xxxx- xxxxx and student-centered learning and encourag- ing teachers to take risks and collaborate. • Planning: defining and evolving the curriculum, ac- ademic and working standards, relationships and commitment. • A community-based science curriculum, which is unique, multidisciplinary, spirals from grade to grade, lends itself to an inquiry, interdisciplinary approach and is real-life, hands-on and active. • Partnership with a community institution, in this case, a public aquarium promoting experience-based science educ...

Learning Styles means how students access, process and express information most easily. The learning-style model developed by Rita and Ken Dunn classifies learning styles and learners as auditory learners, visual learners, tactile learners, kinesthetic learners and tactile/kinesthetic learners. (Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn’t Fit All, Gayle H. Gregory and Carolyn Chapman, 2001)