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Accelerated Learning Cycle: Overview

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Teachers are increasingly using accelerated learning, an approach to learning which builds on a range of learning styles. This template will help you plan lessons which address the issue of multiple intelligences.

Kolb's Learning Cycle:
The learning cycle model, developed by David Kolb, identifies four stages in learning. Peter Honey and Alan Mumford connected each stage in this learning cycle with a preferred learning style.

Stage 1 - Having an experience
Learning Style: Activist (learn best from activities where they can throw themselves into a task).

Stage 2 - Reflecting on the experience
Learning Style: Reflector (learn best when they can review what has happened).

Stage 3 - Acting differently as a result / planning the next steps
Learning Style: Pragmatist (learn best when an opportunity presents itself to learn on the job).

Stage 3 - Concluding from the experience
Learning Style: Theorist (learn best when they can understand what they have learned as part of a wider picture).

Learning Styles Theory

Learning style theory

Explanation

Multiple Intelligences

Using biological as well as cultural research, Gardner formulated seven intelligences – an eighth has subsequently been added:

  • Logical-mathematical intelligence
  • Linguistic intelligence
  • Visual-Spatial intelligence
  • Musical intelligence
  • Bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence
  • interpersonal intelligence.
  • Intrapersonal
  • Naturalist

[see learning styles activity]

Logical-Mathematical - ability to detect patterns, reason deductively and think logically.

Linguistic - ability to effectively manipulate language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically. Also to remember.

Visual Spatial - ability to manipulate and create mental images in order to solve problems.

Musical - ability to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, and rhythms.

Bodily-Kinaesthetic – Ability to use the body in differentiated ways to aid memory.

Interpersonal - ability to understand the feelings and intentions of others.

Intrapersonal - the ability to understand one's own feelings and motivations.

Naturalist – Responding to the natural environment

VAK Learning Model

This model has three main categories:

  • visual learners
  • auditory learners;
  • kinaesthetic learners.

Visual learners memorise by seeing pictures; may be fast paced or impatient; often struggle to remember verbal instructions because their minds tend to wander.

Auditory learners learn by listening and memorise by steps, procedures and sequence; usually like music and talking on the telephone; typically talk to themselves.

Kinaesthetic learners memorise and learn by ‘doing it’ or ‘walking through something’; may be laid back and nonchalant.

Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument

This groups learners by their relative preferences for thinking in four modes:

  • left-brain cerebral (logical thinkers);
  • left-brain limbic (sequential thinkers);
  • right-brain limbic (emotional thinkers);
  • right-brain cerebral (holistic thinkers).

Left brain cerebral – problem solver; mathematical; technical; analyser; logical.

Left brain limbic – planner; controlled; conservative; organisational; administrative.

Right-brain limbic – talker; musical; spiritual; emotional; interpersonal.

Right-brain cerebral – conceptualiser; imaginative; synthesiser; holistic; artistic.

 

Learning Styles Inventory

Kolb classifies learners as having a preference for:

  • concrete experience or abstract conceptualisation
  • active experimentation or reflective observation.

Concrete perceivers absorb information through direct experience - doing, acting, sensing, and feeling.

Abstract perceivers take in information through analysis, observation, and thinking.

Active processors make sense of an experience by immediately using the new information.

Reflective processors make sense of an experience by reflecting on and thinking about it.

Honey and Mumford Learning Styles (developed from Kolb’s inventory and learning cycle), this has four components:

  • activists;
  • reflectors;
  • pragmatists;
  • theorists.

Activists learn best from activities where they can throw themselves into a task.

Reflectors learn best when they can review what has happened.

Theorists learn best when they can understand what they have learned as part of a wider picture.

Pragmatists learn best when an opportunity presents itself to learn on the job.

 

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