1. HOW CHILDREN LEARN
22 APRIL 2014

2. Objectives
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
1. Identify one’s learning style.
2. Describe the different learning style.
3. Identify teaching strategies/practices that
promote appropriate learning style of
learners.

3. ACTIVITY 1
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Prepare 3 sheets of square paper.
• Be ready to make an origami –
utility box.
• Follow the instructions given
you.

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Verbal Directions

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Verbal instructions
with visual aid

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Step 1: Fold a Blintz Base.
Step 2: Open up the paper.

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Step 3: Fold in the 4 corners.

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Step 4: once again, fold the 4
corners in.

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Step 5: FLIP paper over.

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Step 6: Rotate paper slightly so that
you see a square. Now fold both the
top and bottom halves to the center.
Crease well and unfold.

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Step 7: Fold both the right and left
sides to meet in the center.

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Step 8: Now bring the top flap
over from the right to the left.

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Step 9: Fold the top and bottom right
corners on the diagonal as shown below.

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Step 10: Now bring both flaps over from the left to
the right.

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Step 11: This time, we'll fold in the top and bottom left
corners on the diagonal as shown below.

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Step 12: Now bring only the top flap
over from the right to the left.

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Step 13: Here comes the fun
part....shaping our origami box! Pry open
the paper with your fingers.

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Presto! You now have your
origami – utility box!

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Demo of the Process
Origami – utility Box
• Display your origami boxes on top
of your table.

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• How did you find the activity?
• In the box - making activity, which among
the three instructions would you prefer and
why?
• Verbal Instructions Only
• Instructions with Visuals
• Instructions with demonstration

21. ACTIVITY 2
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Get a copy of the Learning Style Inventory and
the Learning Assessment Style worksheets.
• Accomplish the worksheets and determine your
score per learning area.
• Read the interpretation of your scores.

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• What did you discover about learning style
as revealed by the Learning Style
Assessment?
• What does it tell about you as a learner and
as a teacher?
• What insight/s did you learn from the
activity?

23. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Learning Styles
• Common learning styles
- Visual
- Auditory
- Tactile
Source: www.odessa.edu/dept/govt/dille/brian/

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Understanding how students learn starts by
understanding how you as a teacher learn.
It is best achieved when insights gained
from understanding psychological principles
are valued and put into the teaching
practice.

25. Characteristics of Learning Styles
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Visual
- Minds sometimes strays during verbal
activities
- Observes rather than act or talk
- Likes to read
- Memorizes by seeing graphics
- Finds verbal instructions difficult
- Meticulous, neat in appearance
- Notices details

26. Characteristics of Learning Styles
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Auditory
- Talks to self aloud
- Enjoys talking
- Easily distracted
- Likes to be read to
- Enjoys music
- Hums or sings
- Outgoing by nature
- Enjoys listening activities

27. Characteristics of Learning Styles
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Kinesthetic
- Likes physical rewards
- In motion most of the time
- Likes to touch people when talking
- Taps pencil or foot when studying
- Enjoys doing activities
- Poor speller
- Tries new things
- Outgoing by nature
- Dresses for comfort

28. Creating a Positive Learning
Environment
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Teacher Behavior
• Teacher Characteristics
• Student Behavior
• Student Characteristics
• Curriculum
• Time
• School Policies
• Community Characteristics
• Classroom Set-up

29. Understanding learning style will
help you...
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Determine why you learn the
way you do. A good teacher
knows his/her own strengths
and weaknesses, as well as the
basic understanding of the way
students prefer to learn.

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• Recognize how personality type
affects one’s teaching style.
• It is easy to teach students when
their preferred learning styles are
addressed.

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• Develop varied strategies to
help students with different
learning styles.
• Provide the most productive
learning environment possible.

32. Application
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
• Working by learning team, brainstorm on
teaching practices/strategies to ensure
positive learning environment and address
the different learning styles of learners.
• Write these strategies on manila paper to be
posted on the board.
• Ask a representative from the group to read
the output.

33. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Thoughts from William Glasser
We learn:
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both see and hear
70% of what we discuss with others
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach each other

34. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
“We can best help children learn, not by
deciding what we think they should learn
and thinking ingenious ways to teach it to
them, but by making the world as far as
we can, accessible to them, paying
serious attention to what they do,
answering their questions – if they have
any – helping them explore the things they
are most interested in”
JOHN HOLT

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
THANK YOU
AND
MAY YOU
ALWAYS
FIND JOY
IN TEACHING!