Global - big picture

Analytic - details one at a time

There are lots of ways to do things - more than we can think of ourselves. Other people have different ways of doing things. What is good for you might not be good for someone else. We can learn from other people. We can try different ways but they might not be good for us. Some things are automatic and we don’t even think about how we do them.

I know how I do things but I don’t know how other people do them.

Some people are more organised, some more haphazard. 

Some can follow instructions, but some can’t

Some people do things in certain ways because that’s how they are, but it isn’t necessarily the best way even for them.

We should let people do things in their own ways.

Sometimes we don’t like doing things in a certain way, but we have to do it like that anyway. Sometimes we can be flexible.

We want people to stretch and try different things and open their eyes by sharing ideas

Kids need to be taught HOW to learn. 

Sometimes we can let people do things their way but sometimes we do need to have standards and requirements that everyone has to do even if it’s not their preferred way.

Teachers should stretch into new ways of learning styles.

Sometimes we study or learn differently than what we are used to depending the circumstances, what we are asked / supposed to do.

Sometimes we are forced to do something at a certain way and it's hard and we feel we can't. We, as teachers, should be open minded and guide our pupils to find their special way of learning. Every child is unique and has his own special way of learning new things.

Some people are extreme and some are balanced and I should have patience to every one of them.

The different learning styles I learned about today are:

Kids are not familiar with new styles of learning. Adults, both parent and educators should expose youngsters to new ways of studying in order to help them learn the best way for them!

·         my best way of learning/doing things may work only for me;

·         I'm balanced somewhere between global and analytic, and it always changes depends on the task I need to do, the time I have for it, the purpose of it, whether I have a partner, etc. (I bet that if you ask my husband to define me, he would say extreme analytical, because he always asks me to 'cut corners' in cleaning/cooking, but I have to do things my way…);

·         not intentionally, I usually teach according to my preference of learning, which can be problematic, because it is clear that not all of my students share my preferences;

·         it's a shame that although I learned this specific course with Melodie in my B.Ed. 14 years ago, I haven't changed my teaching style too much. I guess that implementing things is not so easy, because if it doesn't come naturally to you, you have to work hard to make it work;

·         I need to ask my students directly what works for them, as Yaarit suggested, and if they are lost and don't have an effective way of learning, I should give them explicit guidance of different learning strategies that they might find efficient;