This document discusses different learning styles and theories. It identifies visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners and notes that facilitators should incorporate a variety of techniques like demonstrations, discussions, and activities to engage all learners. Additionally, it outlines different learner types such as pragmatists, activists, and reflectives. Overall, the key message is that effective training considers individual learning preferences and uses multiple methods to fully involve all participants in the learning process.
2. Learning Styles
Refers to different ways that we learn
Different learning styles so
Use a variety of delivery techniques
3. Visual, auditory and kinesthetic
Visual learners need to see what’s going
on so
include handouts demonstrations and
visual displays in the training
Auditory learner like discussion, listening
and Q and A activities
Kinesthetic learners like practical's team
activities and role plays
4. Pragmatist
Like to try out new theories
Act quickly on ideas
Make practical decisions
5. Activist learner
Are open minded about anything new
Like to be centre of attention
Motto is “you should try anything once’
6. Reflective learners
Good listeners
Stand back and watch others
Keeps a low profile
Motto “ be cautious”
7. Summary
Different learners will enjoy different
styles of training
Facilitators must vary their
approaches to engage all the learners
Learners engage in different ways
8. Learning principles
Must:
Engage the learners
Include modeling as a learning tool
Connect the learning to life
experiences
Adults need to know why
Teacher sets agenda
Learner needs to encourage learner
independence
9. Learning Theories-How the
learning occurs
Behavioural learning: learn from
activities that are observable
Cognitive: brain based learning-active
process of acquiring remembering and
using knowledge
Constructivist Learning :a practical but
personal process applying new ideas
to construct knowledge.
10. Information Processing : This involves
chunking and short term memory
which can only hold 5 to 9 chunks of
information. Learning is defined as the
use and application of short term
memory.
Situational learning takes place in the
same context in which it is apllied is
enivironmental and work based
11. Problem based learning : Encourages
learners to become independent and
creative thinkers closely linking them
with the learning content
12. Pedagogy: Based on instruction being
passed from the teacher to learner,
teachers direct the learning process
and take responsibility.
Andragogy : Is defined as the process
of engaging adult learners. Planning
and evaluation ,experience. Topics
relevant to here and now, and
problem centred.