“Ya’ know good teaching when you see it!”

Diversifying your instructional delivery to meet students’ learning

styles

Dennis S. Kubasko, Jr.Associate Professor of Secondary Education

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Who are your students? Have you ever thought about your

instructional delivery?  Have you ever thought about whether your

instructional strategies match your student learning needs? 

Questions

Basics

to

Back

“Ya’ know good teaching when you see it!”

1. Describe some student learning generalities and highlight their learning needs

2. Offer effective instructional techniques that both motivate and energize your instructional practice

3. Provide easy assessment strategies to determine they know what you intended to teach

Purpose

Student Learning Styles

Teacher Instructional Strategies

Venn Diagram

Concrete – obvious, senses

Abstract – intuition, imaginative

Sequential – linear Random –

chunking Four combinations

of each defined by scores on a test

Learning Styles – David Kolb’s and Anthony Gregorc’s Model

Bodily-Kinesthetic

Interpersonal Verbal-Linguistic Logical-Mathema

tical Naturalistic

Intrapersonal Visual-Spatial Musical Other

intelligences◦ spiritual, existential

and moral intelligence

Multiple Intelligence Theory

Howard Gardner – individual-centered curriculum

Psychologists, Education Psychologists, Educational Theorists, Neuroscientists and Teachers can all disagree◦ Learning Styles Inventory◦ Multiple Intelligences Curricula◦ Myers Briggs Type Indicator◦ Fleming's VARK model

Learning Orientations Research

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Does your delivery look like this?

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Basics

to

Back

“Ya’ know good teaching when you see it!”

Student Learning Styles

Teacher Instructional Strategies

Venn Diagram

Student Learning Styles

Teacher Instructional Strategies

Venn Diagram

How do we get from Teacher-Directed instruction to Student-Centered?◦ Lecture less◦ Make learning active, hands-on◦ Give students some ownership for some of the

learning!◦ Small groups◦ Problem-based

Diversify Your Instruction

Planning Focus and Review Teacher-Directed Student-Centered Independent Practice Assessment

Diversify Your Instruction

Chapter 1: Integrating Educational Technology into the

Curriculum 15

Learning in the Digital Age

Student Learning Styles

Teacher Instructional Strategies

Venn Diagram

Are you prepared to teach these students?

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“Ya’ know good teaching when you see it!”

Diversifying your instructional delivery to meet students’ learning

styles

Dennis S. Kubasko, Jr.Associate Professor of Secondary Education

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Concrete

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Kinsey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hudson

Abstract

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Beeslyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Halpert

Sequential

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Schrute

Random

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Kapoor

Bodily-Kinesthetic

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http://csertoglu.typepad.com/sortipreneur/images/michael_jordan.jpg

Interpersonal

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e8/Phoebe_Buffay_1.jpg/200px-Phoebe_Buffay_1.jpg

Verbal-Linguistic

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Logical-Mathematical

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Naturalistic

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Intrapersonal

http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2008/06/bill_gates_718639.jpg

Visual-Spatial

http://corporatecanvas.com/cc_images/artists/profiles/iveyhayes.jpg

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/michelangelo/e_michelangelo.jpg

Musical

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