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Learning Styles — The General Categories

Learning styles are ways of learning. A preferred learning style is the way in which a student learns best, which reflects the relative strengths or weaknesses of that student’s underling cognitive (learning) skills. Different scholars use different learning style categories. Multiple Intelligence (MI) theory maintains that there are at least seven learning styles (“intelligences”): interpersonal, intra-personal, body/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, logical/mathematical, verbal/linguistic, and musical/rhythmic (D. Lazear, 1991). Some academic organizations trim this list to a basic two: logical/mathematical and verbal/linguistic. For purposes of this article and in accordance with the majority of today’s educational literature, we’ll focus on the following simplified list of three learning styles: Auditory, Visual, and Tactile.

Learning Styles — A Simplified List

Auditory — A student with an auditory learning style learns best when information is delivered in auditory formats such as lectures, discussions, oral readings, audio recordings, or podcasts. Auditory learners do well in classroom settings where professor lectures and student discussions are the norm. These students also do well with taped courses and group study situations.

Visual — A student with a visual learning style learns best when information is presented in visual formats such as books, articles, web pages, images, videos, or diagrams. Visual learners do well with class handouts, power point presentations, movies, and chalkboards. These students take detailed notes, highlight their texts, and use flow charts for study aids.

Tactile — A student with a tactile learning style learns best when information is conveyed in “hands-on” settings such as trade positions, labs, workshops, or participatory classes. Tactile learners respond well to touching and creating things in areas such as art and science. These students want to hold and manipulate the subject matter, rather than merely viewing an image of it.

Learning Styles — The Importance of Cognitive Assessment

Learning styles should be discovered and encouraged. It’s the way we’re “wired” and we’re always more successful in life when we pursue our natural wiring. However, although learning styles are important, working within a student’s learning strengths too early may actually hinder the child’s overall success. If a child is encouraged to avoid areas of struggle, the underlying cognitive skills in that area will remain weak and that child may lose the opportunity to fully develop an array of learning tools. Regardless of whether they’ll ultimately favor the auditory, visual, or tactile styles, all students need a strong foundation in the core cognitive skills.

Cognitive skills are the fundamental tools that all people use to learn and achieve. Cognitive skills are not the learning style preferences such as auditory, visual or tactile, but rather, the underlying mental abilities required for long-term proficiency in core subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics. These foundational learning skills include auditory processing, visual processing, attention, memory, processing speed, logic and reasoning, and comprehension. All of these mental tools should be solid for learning success, but it’s the strongest of these underlying abilities that leads to a preference in learning styles.

At LearningRx, an assessment of basic cognitive skills is the first step towards discovering a student’s preferred learning style. A “Learning Styles Inventory” is an exciting part of our assessment process. If your child is struggling in an area of learning, we encourage you to learn more about our cognitive skills and learning styles assessments.

What's Your Learning Style? The Results

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Your Scores:

• Auditory: 30%
• Visual: 30%
• Tactile: 40%

You are a Tactile learner! Check out the information below, or view all of the learning styles.

Tactile

If you are a tactile learner, you learn by touching and doing. You understand and remember things through physical movement. You are a "hands-on" learner who prefers to touch, move, build, or draw what you learn, and you tend to learn better when some type of physical activity is involved. You need to be active and take frequent breaks, you often speak with your hands and with gestures, and you may have difficulty sitting still.

As a tactile learner, you like to take things apart and put things together, and you tend to find reasons to tinker or move around when you become bored. You may be very well coordinated and have good athletic ability. You can easily remember things that were done but may have difficulty remembering what you saw or heard in the process. You often communicate by touching, and you appreciate physically expressed forms of encouragement, such as a pat on the back.

Here are some things that tactile learners like you can do to learn better:

• Participate in activities that involve touching, building, moving, or drawing.
• Do lots of hands-on activities like completing art projects, taking walks, or acting out stories.
• It's OK to chew gum, walk around, or rock in a chair while reading or studying.
• Use flashcards and arrange them in groups to show relationships between ideas.
• Trace words with your finger to learn spelling (finger spelling).
• Take frequent breaks during reading or studying periods (frequent, but not long).
• It's OK to tap a pencil, shake your foot, or hold on to something while learning.
• Use a computer to reinforce learning through the sense of touch.

Remember that you learn best by doing, not just by reading, seeing, or hearing.

Reflection
Before I discover my learning style is tactile, I just study by swallowing the whole book down my throat. Now I should do more activities that stimulate my senses like touching and drawing. This would create vivid memory and I believe it could make my study more efficient.

Biodata

Not enough sleep is how every single people I met describes me. I have deep dark eye circles that superficially reflects me I am lacking of rest. But truth is often not what we just see. I sleep for 7 hours every day.

I am Tan Shang Yi. I am from Kuala Lumpur and currently taking A-level 18months programme at TCSJ. What I usually do when I am free is that I play basketball and swimming. It really does unwind me from stressful studying process. When I wake up the next morning my whole body will be fully energetic again to happily welcome the day of my life.

I often dream of being the cream de la cream in every single aspect, and I hope my dream would finally come true.

18 years of experience just cannot transform into words. This is just a brief description about myself.

Goal setting

Top 15 Goal Setting Quotes

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…And the importance of aiming before taking flight.

Give a man a bow and arrow and tell him to, “SHOOT!” and his first response would be, “At what?”  When there is no target there is no purpose for shooting.  He could shoot the arrow anywhere and wherever the arrow ended up would be where the arrow ended up.  Not much to it.
On the other hand, if you gave the archer a target and challenged him to hit the bullseye – everything changes.  You now gave him something to aim at, something to challenge his skills against, something to measure his progress with, and something that gives all of his effort – purpose.  All by adding in a simple target.
That’s what a goal does to a person’s life – It changes everything.  You were given a life and you’ve been told ever since to, “live it.‘  Well, in order to answer that question your first thought should be, “By doing what?”  And that is the key focusing question that sets the basis for this list!
Everybody in this world has a different set of circumstances, different set of skills, and a different set of opportunities through which they can interact with the world and find their unique sense of fulfillment.  You’re mission in life should be to figure out what your unique, “sets” are and how you can take action to best capitalize on them that gives all of your effort purpose and meaning.  Goals are the guiding light that get you there.
Take your time reading through the tid-bits below and reflect on the Challenges I’ve posted at the end.  They will help you understand the power of goal setting, encourage you to focus your aim, and hopefully motivate you to create some clear targets that you can take flight towards achieving!  …Starting Today!  Enjoy

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On Goal Setting:

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#15

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” ~ Zig Ziglar

#14

“Everybody has their own Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.” ~ Seth Godin

#13

“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn

#12

“It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t.” ~ Stephen Kellogg

#11

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” ~ Jim Rohn

#10

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” ~ Orison Swett Marden

#9

“The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo

#8

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” ~ J.C. Penney

#7

“Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.” ~ Andy Andrews

#6

“This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.” ~ Scott Reed

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On Goal Achieving:

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“Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will NEVER be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals. ” ~ Unknown

#4

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.” ~ Og Mandino

#3

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” ~ Pablo Picasso

#2

“If you raise your standards but don’t really believe you can meet them, you’ve already sabotaged yourself. You won’t even try; you’ll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that’s within you… Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what’s possible and impossible and what we can and can not do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.” ~ Anthony Robbins

#1

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we always win out.” ~ Ronald Reagan

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Application Exercises:

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Level 1 Challenge:  Take some time right now to reflect on some of your goals in the past.  Think about some of your past New Year Resolutions that you never saw through to the end and some of the resolutions that you actually found success with and/or adopted as part of your lifestyle.  Think about some of your ‘fed up‘ moments when you resolved to make lifestyle changes for the better because you were sick of feeling or acting a certain way and maybe ended up simply falling back to your old ways after a few short weeks.  Once you have a few of these examples in mind, think about how you set those goals and why you achieved some goals but not others.  What factors contributed to that?  Use the SMART acronym below to help guide your thoughts and provide you with some valuable insight that can change the way you set all of your goals in the future!

S – Specific: Be clear and unambiguous when setting your goal. Don’t leave room for guessing.

M – Measurable: Set a goal that allows you measurement toward your goals progress.

A – Attainable: Ask yourself, “Is this realistic and attainable?” If not, back to the drawing board.

R – Relevant: Create a goal with importance and meaning. Make sure the effort is worth it to you.

T – Time-bound: Commit to a deadline. Open-ended goals tend to go forgotten.

Level 2 Challenge:  Follow the same principles discussed above and set one SMART and focused goal that you can commit to achieving whole-heartedly.  Then, make sure you put it in a place where you can be reminded of it every day.  For example, you could turn your goal into a poster and place it on your bedroom wall, or you could make your goal your smartphone background, or you could put your goal on your work desk – anywhere that you will see it often.  Finally, try and tell somebody what you’re doing and tell them to hold you accountable.  The power of accountability can never be overemphasized.  When you have somebody to report to, you will be much more likely to push through on days when you don’t feel like it and resultantly, see your goals through to the end!

Level 3 Challenge:  Set two SMART goals and inspire three other people to set a SMART goal of their own!  Life has a lot to do with connection and the more you interact with the people within your circle of influence and do interesting things with, the more fulfillment that you are all going to find together!  It’s the principle of Synergy.  When you work together with another person the result isn’t doubled but exponentially increased!  Who can you think of that might need some help setting goals?  Who do you know of that always talks about change but never really does anything about it?  What goals can you think of that might be of common interest to people in your circle?



Goal is motivation and destiny.


Long-term goal:
I wish I could become a specialist doctor by the time I am 35 years old and publish my research on medical field!

Short-term goal:
Goal 1: Straight A* for my A-level
Goal 2: Get scholarship and enter IMU
Goal 3: Graduate from medical school
Goal 4: Pass medical housemanship
Goal-5: Pass Specialist Examination

We fight and achieve our goal, no matter how we bleed and exhausted.

We only live once.

 

Review on Interpersonal skills

"We can bend a pair of chopsticks easily but when comes to a bundle of chopsticks, it would be very tough to be bend." This is how the saying goes. It is cliche, but it truly reflects the importance of interpersonal skills in a team when pursuing success. Everybody with different and special abilities could contribute to the team, and as a leader, we should understand team dynamics and mobilise the power of team. Leaders who give clear instructions,understand the problem of the members through conversations and balance the positions of each member in the team are able to bring them into one.
I believe I am lacking of this quality and I wish I could master interpersonal skills during my education in Taylor College.

Overview

Taylor’s Graduate Capabilities (TGC) was created in 2007 to enhance university-level education to meet the ever- changing demands of industry, community and globalisation. TGC outlines the core knowledge, skills, abilities and qualities that students will develop at Taylor’s University regardless of their programme of study.

In a highly competitive and challenging 21st century workplace, graduates who are skilled will be relevant, responsive and work-ready to start ahead and stay ahead in the global marketplace.

A Taylor’s graduate who is equipped with TGC is not only readily adaptable to the changing workplace environment, but he/she also has the ability to take on new tasks and jobs successfully.

The teaching and learning approach at Taylor’s University is focused on ensuring that each student is able to acquire and demonstrate discipline-specific knowledge, cognitive capabilities and soft skills.

Impact on students

Every effort to instill TGC, whether in academics or extra-curricular activities, is significant in helping our students cultivate the competencies they need to be competitive in the working world upon graduation.

 

 

Academics in each school are responsible for embedding TGC in their teaching and learning activities. This is implemented at the module and programme levels through curricular design that involves mapping learning outcomes in relation to TGC, assessing TGC achievement and tracking student development. Evaluation and review mechanisms will be enhanced through regular audits and curricular review processes.

The university’s Student Support Services instills TGC in students at the co-curricular and extra-curricular levels. There are many opportunities for development university-wide, such as opportunities for development university-wide, such as international collaborations, fairs, community service initiatives, sports and recreational activities, competitions, internships and other personal and professional development activities.

The Integrated Teaching and Life-long Learning Centre at Taylor’s (INTELLECT) will monitor the implementation of TGC, as well as provide support and develop resources for stakeholders within the university to drive the TGC plan to its fulfillment.

With their valuable real-world input, employers in our Industry Advisory Panel, as well as our alumni network and business partners from varied industries also have a key role in keeping our strategic plan relevant, current and grounded in industry expectations.

Our students are at the centre of this plan. It is our hope they will take responsibility for consciously developing their own graduate capabilities and learning to demonstrate those important capabilities through reflection, portfolios and ultimately, a TGC Award.  

The 8 Taylor’s Graduate Capabilities

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE			Able to put theories into practice		Understand ethical issues in the context of the field of study		Understand professional practice within the field of study
LIFELONG LEARNING			Learn independently		Locate, extract, synthesise and utilise information effectively		Be intellectually engaged
THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS			Think critically and creatively		Define and analyse problems to arrive at effective solutions
COMMUNICATION SKILLS			Communicate appropriately in various settings and modes
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS			Understand team dynamics and mobilise the power of teams		Understand and assume leadership
INTRAPERSONAL SKILLS			Manage oneself and be self-reliant		Reflect on one’s actions and learning		Embody Taylor’s core values
CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES			Be aware of and form opinions from diverse perspectives		Understand the value of civic responsibility and community engagement
DIGITAL LITERACY			Effective use of ICT and related technologies