Appendix
Learning Styles Inventory
What students should know about my teaching style is that I have an Understanding-focused teaching style. I will place learning into real world context by incorporating a lot of current news discussion and review in my class to give meaning and relevance to the science content we are learning.
I tend to ask a lot of higher level questions to get at understanding and I will ask students to use evidence to justify and support their thinking. I focus on questions that are hypothesizing, analyzing, summarizing, comparing and contrasting, not to mention explaining and inferring. My goal is to have students take their own learning style inventory and then tailor my lessons to facilitate each students learning. Sometimes students get to choose which learning style they want to use for the task and other times, I may ask students to stretch and work in a learning style they are not as comfortable with. The goal in every instance is to appropriately push a student to learn something new and be able to apply their new knowledge in a real world situation. |
Finally, I will encourage and expect students to take risks and make mistakes because that is an important way to learn.
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