Learning Strategies and Career Success

Workshop:  Learning Strategies and Career Success:  Why Learning Strategies Matter

• Overview:

There are many ways to teach and learn, and several things that affect the learning process. Learning is required throughout life, and a person’s ability to learn will impact his/her academic and career success. This workshop introduces participants to three types of theories related to how people take in, process, and apply new knowledge. Individuals will take an assessment to identify their preferred sensory style of receiving new information, and will receive many tips for utilizing those preferred ways of learning. Tips and tricks for adapting to different teaching styles will also be discussed.

• Learning Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

• Identify why it is important to know about learning styles

• Associate life transitions with a need for learning

• Register that there is a difference between teaching and learning

• Recognize multiple styles available for teaching, learning, and studying

• Identify how personality affects learning preferences

• Recognize three categories that most learning styles theories will fit into

• Acquire tips for adapting to teacher’s whose style is different from theirs

• Receive tips for improving their learning efforts

• Develop adaptive skills for dealing with different teaching styles

• Identify helpful resources for adapting to different teaching styles

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:

           Note: Due to depth of content, the information provided is

           broken down into four parts:

1. Learning Strategies & Career Success:  Why Learning Strategies Matter

2. Taking Information In:  Information Gathering & Processing

3. Thinking About Information: Mental Processing

4. Processing Information Together:  Collaborative Learning

•    PowerPoint Files:

  • General

• Learning Strategies & Career Success

  1. Taking Information In

  2. Thinking About Information

  3. Processing Information Together

• Brain-based Learning – PowerPoint Files:

  • In-depth

  • Basics

• Academic (Study) Skills – PowerPoint Files:

  • Critical Thinking

  • Memory

  • Effective Listening

  • Note Taking

  • Reading (SQ3R)

  • Test Taking

• Teaching – PowerPoint Files:

  • Exceptional Teaching

• Related Links:

• The Learning Scientists

• Answering Essay Tests: Focus on Key Words

• Brain Rules (brain-based learning)

• Luminosity (brain training program)

• Brain HQ (brain training program)

• Learning the Millennial Way

• Kahoot (Create free online learning games)

• Memorize Academy

• MBTI – 16 Personality Types & Learning

• Online Learning Styles Quiz (by: Community for Accredited Online Schools)

• Online Learning Styles Quiz – The VARK Questionnaire

• Multiple Intelligences for Adult Literacy (includes assessment)

• 10 Strategies for Online Test Taking

• Online Student Readiness Tutorials

• Mt. SAC’s Supplemental Instruction (SI) Program

• Supplemental Instruction (SI) Activity Ideas (starts on p. 53)

• Vygotsky’s “Zone of Proximal Development”

• Videos Related to Learning Strategies

• 10,000 Hour Rule

• Changing Education Paradigms

•   Rote Learning - (Karate Kid – ‘Wax On, Wax Off)

• Part 1

• Part 2

• Student parodies “Gangnam Style” to learn ‘PEMDAS’.

• TED: Brain science and “How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Adult Illness”

• ​TED: The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans

• LinkedIn: “Become an Instructional Designer”

• “Using ‘Multiple Measures’ in Math and English Placement”

• How to Study Effectively for School or College – Top 6 Science-Based Study Skills

• Technology is Replacing Jobs. Are You Ready? (Slope of the Curve)
  

• Articles on Learning and Career Success

• Why This Skill Could Catapult Your Career in the Next 10 Years

• Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

• How to Study for Finals

• Learning the Millennial Way

• FAILing into Creativity

• Related Books:

• Introduction to Type and Learning

  1. A Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments and Learning

  2. Looking at Type and Learning Styles

• StrengthsQuest (StrengthsFinder assessment applied to academics)

• Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

• Wounded by School

• How the Brain Learns

• How the Special Needs Brain Learns

• Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

• Dynamics Of Personality Type:Understanding And Applying Jung’s Cognitive Processes (Diversity in Mental Processing)
  

• Popular Study Skills Textbooks:

• Becoming a Master Student​

• P.O.W.E.R. Learning

• On Course

• College Study: The Essential Ingredients

• Study Skills: Do I Really Need This Stuff?

• The Community College Experience Brief

• Cornerstones for Community College Success

• Your College Experience

• Choices for College Success
  

• Related Handouts:

• Three Sensory Learning Styles

• Multiple Intelligences

• Rote Learning

• Learning Pyramid

• Brain-based Learning

• Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Asking Open-Ended Questions

• Faculty Relations

• Generational Values

• True Self

• Life-Long Learning Options

• Hidden Rules

• Success

• So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?

• The Journey

• Reaching Career Goals

• Decision-Making Variables

• Rapidly-Changing World

• Delayed Response

• Stress

• Talent vs. Skill

• Hungry, Tired, Stressed Affecting Your Grades?

• Striving But Not Arriving?