How Personality Differences Affect Learning

EDUCATION B EE IS RE> BROMEN HOW PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES AFFECT LEARNING THE US IS FALLING BEHIND LITERACY RATES: 26% 27% 8th GRADERS 12th GRADERS 1 in 3 students scored “below basic" on the NAEP Reading Test in 2009. SCORED BELOW "BASIC" LEVEL (National Assessment of Education Progress) 32% 38% 49% of students who scored "below basic" were from low income families. 8th GRADERS 12th GRADERS 67% WERE AT OR ABOVE GRADE LEVEL of all fourth graders in the US were not reading at a fourth grade level. MATH AND SCIENCE: E MATH SCIENCE 25TH 21ST 15-year-olds in the US ranked 25th (out of 30 countries) in math performance. 15-year-olds in the US ranked 21st (out of 30 countries) in science performance. OUT OF 21 INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES, AMERICAN 12TH GRADERS RANKED... 16TH IN SCIENCE 21ST IN ADVANCED PHYSICS 19TH IN MATH SINCE 1983, MORE THAN 10 MILLION AMERICANS REACHED TWELFTH GRADE WITHOUT KNOWING HOW TO READ AT A BASIC LEVEL 88 MORE THAN 20 MILLION REACHED TWELFTH GRADE WITHOUTI BEING ABLE TO DO BASIC MATH SOME THINGS TO CONSIDER: MANY STUDENTS ARE NOT WELL-SUITED TO MEMORIZATION is FAVORED BY U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS ROTE MEMORIZATION DIFFERENT TYPES OF LEARNING: AN INNOVATIVE?FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO TEACHING WOULD ENCOMPASS MORE THAN ONE LEARNING STYLE VISUAL AURAL VERBAL (SPATIAL) (AUDITORY) (LINGUISTIC) Prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding Prefer using music and sounds Prefer using words, in writing and speech LOGICAL PHYSICAL SOCIAL (MATHEMATICAL) CKINESTHETIC) CINTERPERSONAL) Prefer using systems, logic, and reasoning Prefer using sense of touch, hands, and body Prefer to learn with other people or in groups SOLITARY CINTRAPERSONAL) Prefer to use self-study and work alone EACH LEARNING STYLE USES DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BRAIN: O LEFT HEMISPHERE: RIGHT HEMISPHERE R Speech, attention to details writing and reading ,verbal memory and thinking,and processes information in a linear manner. Processing and storage of visual, tactile, musical, and spatial information. Handles complex non-verbal material, intuition, perceptiveness, inspirational hunches, and emotional processing. PERSONALITY HEAVILY INFLUENCES LEARNING STYLE: COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ISN'T FOR EVERYONE: Classrooms are typically situated for extroverts. Extroverts thrive working in collaborative groups and during class discussions which include public speaking and presentations. Introverts prefer quiet (as opposed to classroom noise and being bombarded with stimuli). That includes working on individual projects and independent thinking. TOP10ONLINECOLLEGES.ORG DEVELOPED BY http://www.truity.com/view/types http://www.studentsfirst.org/pages/the-stats http://catholiceducation.org/articles/education/ed0033.html http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/type-tables.asp http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/science/article/pii/S0191886911002194 http://www.teachthought.com/teaching/a-primer-for-mixing-introverts-and-extroverts-in-the-classroom/ N NOWSOURCING