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Understanding Yourself as a Learner
Brainstorming Session
The following link will open a digital whiteboard. On this digital whiteboard identify all the school related things that you are good at and the school related things that challenge you.
Guiding Questions:
What am I really good at?
What challenges do I face?
What is Learning?
Watch the following video. Has learning taken place? How do we know learning has taken place?
Class Discussion:
1. On the three post-it provided, identify three different times in your life that you learned something. Connect each of these instances to a learning method. (example--riding a bike = repeated practice)
2. From our post-its and the video, what type of learning methods are there?
3. What is learning?
Read the following quotations about learning. In the padlet provided create your own inspirational quote about learning
Guiding Questions:
What type of learner am I?
How can knowing this help me in my studies?
Understanding Yourself as a Learner: Part 2
THE
TOWEL
CHALLENGE
What is Your VARK?
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Gallery Walk
Using a piece of chart paper, identify your VARK order and your two top categories from Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences. Below this brainstorm ways of studying and learning that align with these preferences. When everyone is done we will visit each others chart paper and add other methods or suggestions.
How can our learning preferences can play a vital and positive role in school?
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