1. Learning styles
Different people have different approaches….

2. Objectives Why learning styles 1 Honey and Mumford learning styles
The questionnaire
Scoring the questionnaire
Why learning styles 2
A practical exercise

3. Why learning styles? The underpinning concepts:
Learners are intrinsically different and have different preferred learning styles.
Teaching is a purposeful intervention with the aims of promoting learning and causing learning to happen.

4. An educator’s experience

5. Honey and Mumford learning styles
Activist
Reflector
Theorist
Pragmatist

6. Activists The here and now Just do it Jump in at the deep end
Have a go
Act without thinking it through
Don’t like preparation
Get bored easily

7. Reflectors Take time to think it through
Consider all angles and implications
Listen to others
Uncomfortable in unplanned situations
Need information to work on
Dislike deadlines

8. Theorists Logical Rational Analytical Objective Perfectionist
Restricted lateral thinking
Don’t like uncertainty
Don’t like subjectivity

9. Pragmatists Does it work in practice?
Like linking the theory to the problem
Like to tackle it straight away
Enjoy coaching and feedback
Don’t like open ended discussions
Need clear guidelines
Need immediate reward

10. The LSQ

11. The learning styles diamond
Activist
>11
Reflector
>15
Theorist
>14
Pragmatist

12. The learning cycle

13. Add in the learning styles….

14. Why learning styles
Tailoring your teaching style to the learner’s learning style
AND
All learning styles are important for developmental learning

15. Practical exercise