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####### TOPIC 1 : GETTING READY TO LEARN####### LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY—Definition of learning style‘Learning style refers to the way you acquire, process, andretain information—the way you learn best.’● Self-Advocacy (watch out for and be on top of stuff yourself)● Manage and control your own time...

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TOPIC 1 : GETTING READY TO LEARN LEARNING STYLE INVENTORY

‘Learning style refers to the way you acquire, process, and retain information—the way you learn best.’

—Definition of learning style

Transition from School to College

High School ● Parents and teachers are your advocates ● The schedule (bells!) and the people in charge manage and control your time

● Approx 6 report cards a year

● Some study time required

● Free / required education

● Self-Advocacy (watch out for and be on top of stuff yourself) ● Manage and control your own time and schedule (no bells!)

● 1 grading period (semester). No progress reports. ● 2 hours of homework for every one hour in class

● Accountable to teachers, counselors, parents ● Teachers, classes counselors are assigned

College

and

● Accountable to yourself

● You decide which classes and teachers to sign up for, and counselors are by choice ● Cost / optional education

8 Steps to College Success

Form Study Groups with Friends.

Attend All Classes.

Become an Active Learner.

Participate in Class

Get to Know Your Lecturers

Stay Up to Date with Your Work.

8 STEPS TO COLLEGE SUCCESS

Be Receptive to Change

Work Hard This Semester.

8 STEPS TO COLLEGE SUCCESS 1. Attend All Classes. One of the best ways to be successful in college is to attend all classes. Although you will be tested on material from the course text, most of the test questions will come from lectures. 2. Become an Active Learner. Unlike high school, in college, you can't learn all of the material just reading over it a couple of times. You need to write and recite the information to get it into long-term memory. 3. Participate in Class. If you feel a bit uncomfortable participating in class, set a goal to either ask or answer one question during each class. Once you begin participating, you'll feel more a part of the class and will become more actively involved in the learning process. 4. Get to Know Your Lecturers. Take a few minutes and stop to talk with your lecturer before or after class or during office hours. Ask a question about the material or check on your progress in the course. If you get to know your instructors, you may feel more comfortable asking for help when you need it. 5. Form Study Groups with Friends. Study Groups of about 3-4 people are known to be very effective. However, make sure that you include friends who are serious about doing well in their studies, because only then they will contribute. 6. Stay Up to Date with Your Work. Many new college students have difficulty keeping up with all of the reading that's assigned in class. If you get behind in your reading, you may never have time to catch up. The workload in college just increases as the semester progresses. Never procrastinate! 7. Be Receptive to Change. If the strategies that you used in high school aren't working, ask you lecturer or tutor for suggestions for different ways to learn. Even though the strategies that they suggest may not seem like they'll work, you must be willing to give them a chance. If you don't make changes in the way you take notes, read your texts or prepare for exams, for example, you won't see changes in your performance 8. Work Hard This Semester. Forget about doing all your assignments in the evening. If you're taking fifteen credits this semester, you'll need a minimum of thirty hours (two hours outside of class for every hour in class) to do your work. If you want high grades, if you work slowly or if you're taking difficult courses, you'll need more time to do your work well.

Types of Learning Styles

The three basic types of learning styles are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. To learn, we depend on our senses to process the information around us. Most people tend to use one of their senses more than the others.

Learning Styles

STRATEGIES FOR LEARNING STYLE Visual

Auditory

Kinesthetic

Read and highlight

Read text out loud

Take notes as you read

Visualize pictures, charts, and diagrams

Recite at the end of headed sections

Predict questions in the margin of your text

Outline information

Explain information

Create word cards and practice them out loud

Edit lecture notes

Record lectures and play them when you commute

Label diagrams, recreate maps and charts to learn information for exams

Color-code notes

Recite from the headings in lecture notes

Make up self-tests and take them

Write out steps in a process for math

Recite answers to questions in the margin

Participate in study groups and review sessions

Create study sheets

Teach the material to someone else

Work problems

Write word cards

Create a taped self-test

Take end-of-chapter and online tests

Make question cards

Explains the steps for solving math problems

Create mnemonics to recall information

Write questions in the margin

Create rhymes, poems, and songs to recall information

Take online tests

Read text out loud

Create visual images to connect information

Recite at the end of headed sections

Multi-Sensory Learning

Multisensory learning is the assumption that individuals learn better if they are taught using more than one sense (modality). The senses usually employed in multisensory learning are visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile – VAKT (i.e. seeing, hearing, doing, and touching).

MOTIVATION

DEFINITION Motivation can be described as something that energizes, directs, and sustains behavior toward a particular goal

TYPES • INTRINSIC – An internal drive for succes or sense of purpose. • EXTRINSIC involves doing something because you want to earn a reward or avoid punishment

FACTORS • GOALS • SELF-EFFICACY is essentially the belief in your own ability to control your own behavior, emotions, and motivations. • EFFORT

Types of Goals

MASTERY

Mastery goals can be described as goals that focus on learning the material or on mastering new skills.

GOALS

Mastery goals motivate student to learn the course material— to master it—for the sake of learning.

PERFORMANCE GOALS

Performance goals are goals that involve achieving good grades or gaining praise or recognition Students motivated by performanceapproach goals generally work hard to earn the top grade or be the best in the class. Students motivated by performanceavoidance goals only work hard enough to avoid a low grade or looking bad compared to others.

Mastery goals help students persist even when the task is boring or difficult....