Unit 5 Discussion: Relfections on Your Learning Style

[Jose Valenzuela]

About My Learning Style.
I enjoy listening, watching, taking notes, classifying and organizing contents.  I like too participating in groups, activities or projects.  I think that I can do this better and can take part in other ways of learning.  I hope to feel more secure doing it in English too, as in Spanish, in a short time.
I understood as a ministry I need to teach others applying different methods and activities.  I’ll never label or consider someone to be ‘dumb’. He or she can be a brilliant student but would only be known if the teacher evaluates him or her on different manner.  
I don’t think the four learning styles showed and explained by Lefever, supported by McCarthy and Dunn is the ultimate knowledge about learning but it’s a good option. I, appreciate her effort and contribution to my education and ministry.

[bill stell]

The learning style test we took online had me (if memory serves) as analytic 46/dynamic 44/imaginative 35/common sense 26...

this seems about right... certainly I've never displayed much common sense!  but as I read through the Lefevre text about learning styles, I would perhaps categorize myself as less dynamic and more imaginative than my test results indicated... but maybe that's only in my imagination!

as far as the Lefevre text... I found some of it slow going... no doubt great for those who intend to teach Sunday School classes... but all the pipe-cleaners and clay stuff kind of dragged for me... don't know if anyone else experienced the same... maybe that's just my analytic side taking over, and I need to work to stretch my preferences... maybe I'll spend the evening making crushed-foil sculptures expressing my frustration with the text...

anyway, to change the subject, it was wonderful meeting and interacting with you all on the retreat... truly a blessed time for me... this seminary is a wonderful place, and I thank God for the opportunity to be here... and get to know all you fine folks...

and now, if April would lead us all in a chorus of 'Cumbaya', I'll sign out...

Bill

[Rob Baker]

Bill,

I certainly can relate to your impatience with the pipe cleaners and clay! I felt the same way about drawing the face in the squares.  I guess that is the common sense learner in me. Oh well, at least we are learning something about ourselves.

Please! Don't get April started on the Kumbaya!

Rob