1. Learning Styles / Teaching Styles Book Club Discussion 3B
Book Talks
Learning Styles / Teaching Styles
Book Club Discussion 3B
Plan for presentation for next week
(Book Club paper due next week, too)

14. Book Talks

15. Respond to one or both of the following prompts:
Describe a favorite class and a least-favorite class. What kinds of activities did you do in each class? What was it about the class that made you like/dislike it?
Describe yourself as a learner. How do you like to learn? What kinds of classroom activities are most fun and/or most effective for you? What kinds don’t work well?

16. Exercise: Eating an Apple
1. Using all of your physical senses (i.e., sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste), examine the apple and record as many FACTS about it as you can.
2. Based on the facts you recorded, list as many ASSOCIATIONS as possible: what the apple reminds you of or makes you think of.
3. Draw some CONCLUSIONS about apples: what we can and can’t do with them, they are and aren’t useful for, potential uses.
4. Based on your personal VALUES, consider your conclusions and decide which uses we should or shouldn’t pursue.

17. Exercise: Eating an Apple
1. Using all of your physical senses (i.e., sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste), examine the apple and record as many FACTS about it as you can.
2. Based on the facts you recorded, list as many ASSOCIATIONS as possible: what the apple reminds you of or makes you think of.
Sensing Perception
Intuitive Perception
3. Draw some CONCLUSIONS about apples: what we can and can’t do with them, they are and aren’t useful for, potential uses.
4. Based on your personal VALUES, consider your conclusions and decide which uses we should or shouldn’t pursue.
Thinking Judgment
Feeling Judgment

18. Personality Preferences
Introversion Extraversion
Sensing Intuition
Thinking Feeling
Judging Perceiving
“Cognitive” processes: how we take in information & make decisions with it

19. Type Theory: The Really Brief Version
Extraverts - interested in the world around them; lots of interests
Introverts - interested in their thoughts & ideas; a fewer, deeper interests
Sensing types - attend to literal meanings & concrete experience;
move step-by-step through new experience
Intuitive types - attend more to relationships & possibilities than to facts;
skip and jump through new information
Thinking types - respond to logical analysis (without a personal element)
Feeling types - commit to personal relationships & attend to personal values
Judging types - like to have a plan and like to have things settled
Perceiving types - often finish projects with a burst of energy at the deadline

20. You might be an Extravert/Introvert if . . .
(adapted from Gordon Lawrence, People Types and Tiger Stripes, 3rd ed)
You might be an Extravert if …
… you like action and variety
… you like to do mental work by talking to people
… you tend to act quickly, sometimes without much reflection
… you like to see how other people do a job—and see the results
… you want to know what other people expect of you
You might be an Introvert if…
… you like quiet, and time to consider things
… you like to do mental work privately before talking
… you may be slow to try something without first understanding it
… you like to understand the idea of a job, and to work alone or with just a few people
… you want to set your own standards
How might writing an answer before saying it aloud be helpful to introverts? to extraverts?

21. Extravert types like...
· to think out loud to clarify their ideas
· to talk rather than write
· breadth more than depth
Introvert types like...
· listening more than talking
· keeping a low profile
· depth more than breadth
Sensing types like...
· following step-by-step instructions
· learning facts and details
· seeing actual results
Intuitive types like...
· skipping around & following hunches
· getting the big picture, not the details
· asking lots of “what if” questions
Thinking types like...
· using cause-and-effect reasoning
· being shown why
· being able to critique an idea
Feeling types like...
· using personal values to evaluate material
· a “friendly” work atmosphere
· being treated personally
Judging types like...
· staying on task
· the satisfaction of completing projects
· doing things early rather than late
Perceiving types like...
· being spontaneous and flexible
· juggling several projects at the same time
· working under the pressure of a deadline

22. So what difference do these preferences make in the classroom?
In groups of 2-3, look back at your list of activities you did and didn’t like.
How might those activities appeal (or not) to particular preferences? (Make a list; bullets are OK.)
Using the green handout (“Type Preferences”) and the yellow double-sided handout (“Attending to All the Preferences”), create a list of some activities that could be used instead of -- or in addition to -- the activities in your original list, so that the activities might be more appealing to students with different learning styles.

24. Book Club Discussion 3B
Group Members: Annalisa, Devan, Jacqueline, Josie , Richard
Topic #3: From Print to Film (Books Made into Movies) Books: The Perks of Being a Wallflower; Beautiful Creatures;  The Life of Pi; The Last of the Mohicans; How to Deal
Group Members: Ashlee, Holly, Laura, Paul
Topic #3: My America series Books: Our Strange New Land; Freedom's Wings; The Starving Time;  A Poetry Atlas; Flying Free
Group Members: Erin, Jeannie, Michael, Tammy
Topic #3: Nonfiction Books: Baghdad Burning; Girl, Interrupted; The Pregnancy Project; A Long Way Home
Plan next week’s presentation to the class on ONE of your discussions.

25. Looking Ahead: Mar 21 – Book Club Group Reports; Book Club Paper due
Mar 28 – Units of Study; Kizzy Ann Stamps (civil rights books)
Apr 04 – Spring Break; no class
Apr 11 – Unit Plan due
Apr 18 – Final Exam due