Differing Learning Styles

Profiling a learner

Not all learners learn the same way.  Not all teachers teach the same way.  That's not rocket science.  It can be informative to recognise how a particular student prefers to learn, but how practical is it to attempt to teach all, say, 25 students in your class in a different style (should each student have a different preference)? 

Perhaps more valuable is to be aware of a difference in preference in learning style as a possible explanation as to why a particular student may not be engaging or learning as quickly as a cohort and, moreover, to enable additional help to be given to that student in a learning style that might better suit them.  How might a teacher determine and keep a record of learners' preferred learning style?  

APA Referencing Style

Confession: I have not yet read the 54 page "Abridged Guide to the APA Referencing Style".

The contents of this blog are "not intended to be academic", however I understand that "it is protocol to reference them (but no formal reference list)", (per Wendy Fasso, Course Coordinator, "The blog entries vs the concluding reflection" forum post).

Hopefully you'll bear with me and be satisfied, in the interim, with hyperlinks and other non-APA style references.

Are we sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...

A newbie blogger, I'm really not sure how this blog will appear.  Unprofessional, I suspect.  But then, this is the beginning. If we all knew everything, there'd not be much point in me being on a Graduate Diploma of Learning and Teaching course, would there?  In fact, there'd not be much point in having teachers at all, if we all knew everything, right?

So this is the beginning, and I know very little.  Let's see if that changes over time. "Follow" me and find out...