My eclectic learning style

I first assessed my learning style here

Active or Reflective
Hmm: Somewhere in between but mostly Active. As a verbal person, talking about something, "doing something active with it" is my natural tendency. But when it comes to editing/writing I prefer to do it alone. A recent group editing session was particularly hard for me. Though that could have been because I was so tired from lesson planning and teaching/not eating enough.

Intuitive
Abstract, yes, math, no. Lab, not so much, but I'm happy to make connections and be tested on those things that I have not yet been explicitly taught. Though I have to admit, this was not the case in in Epi over the summer. Can I be an intuitive learner when it comes to abstract ideas and a sensing learner when it comes to Epi?

Verbal
I just have to be. It would be crazy if I wasn't. I REMEMBER visual learning tools very vividly. But I tend to skip, say a flow chart or a graph and read the accompanying text before I really engage with the visual representation. In last semester's census data analysis class, as I worked with the data in excel, I would create a table or a chart to analyze and eventually report what the data said, but only as I worked on a sentence to explain what I was seeing did it make real sense. Also, I talk. A lot. About what we're learning, what we just learned, etc. = Verbal, right?

Sequential
I might be a global learner as my study habits seem to fit the suggestions, but my gut says I am a sequential learner; and I think my experience with Epi over the summer was like that: i could do problem sets well enough, but it would take a few days after the assignment for me to truly understand what I had been doing with those problem sets.


How does understanding the diverse range of learning styles help you in your approach to teaching?

Reflect on any classes you’ve taken in which the professor or GSI’s approach to teaching did not match your learning style. What might they have done to better reach students with your learning style?

This just in! According to the online activity: I am:
a 9 on the Active scale
a 7 on the Intuitive scale
a 5 on the Verbal scale
a 5 on the Global scale

The Global is the only thing that surprises me, but truthfully, not so much.