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SLD: Steps to Success

Learning Skills Centre

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

The programme is built on the principles that learning performance can be performed by:

a better self-awareness of strengths and weaknesses

building on those strengths

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

You are about to be marooned on a desert island.

Think of three things you would like to have to help you survive:

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

When you were thinking, did you

see things

name things

see and name things?

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Did you

see them before you named them?

name them before you saw them?

both?

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

What I didn’t tell you is that tigers live on the island.

Can you name one thing you wish you’d got without seeing it?

Yes

A bit

no

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Can you see one thing without naming it?

yes

a bit

no

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

You are about to find an odd one out puzzle

If you solve it, you can escape.

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Click on the odd one out:

A B C D E F C H I J K L

Click on the odd one out:

0 * 0 * 0 * 0 * * 0 * 0 *

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

When you first began to solve this puzzle did you:

Look at the whole pattern and expect the odd one out to jump out at you?

Look at the sequence step by step?

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Which one worked for you?

Look at the whole pattern and expect the odd one out to jump out?

Look at the sequence step by step?

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

You have won a holiday.

Your tickets are included.

You leave tomorrow.

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

There are two groups for our winners

Choose the one you would prefer to join:

an expert will give a talk on the subject

an expert will lead a discussion and you are invited to join in

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Are you good at taking part in discussions?

Yes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Do you find yourself fidgeting with your pen or other objects when trying to listen?

Yes

Sometimes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Do you like rocking back on your chair?

Yes

Sometimes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Do you find you want to stand up and move off more quickly than those around you?

Yes

Sometimes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Do you like to have more than one thing on the go and move from one thing to another

Yes

Sometimes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Click on today’s date

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

When using the telephone do you get the numbers mixed up when you dial?

Yes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Is your spelling poor?

Yes

No

Do you mix up dates and times and miss appointments?

Yes

No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Do you find forms difficult and confusing?

Yes / No

Do you find it difficult to take messages and pass them on correctly?

Yes / No

Do you mix up bus numbers like 159 and 195?

Yes / No

Dr. Ross Cooper: Learning Styles Interactive Diagnostic Screening

Thank you and we will now compile the results of your assessment

Visual or verbal?

Visual Verbal

speedimaginativecreativelateralinductive symbolic overviewpatternsmulti-dimensionalinter-relationships

orderedanalyticalcriticallogicaldeductiveabstractdetailelements2-dimensionalcause and effect

Holistic strategies

Holistic strategies include: Trying to “see: what things mean

Thinking what it means before you start

Deciding why you are learning something (purpose)

Reading the summary first

Making connections to things you already know

Skimming and scanning to identify key points or priorities

Making mind maps

Creating meaningful models

Making up analogies /metaphors

Thinking how you might use the learning

Sequential strategies

Sequential strategies include:

Learning first principles

Following through problems and their solutions

Testing yourself on questions and answers

Focusing in on specific parts of the learning

Ensuring that you understand all the vocabulary

Identifying the evidence and reaching a conclusion

Doing background reading

Planning what you are going to do in what order

Learning the rules

Does moving help your concentration?

drink plenty of water

eat when you feel the need (but not sugar!!)

change the light to suit you (particularly when reading)

listen to slow baroque music if you find background noise helps you concentrate

work at the time of day that suits you as far as possible

select study skills that suit your leaning style

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