Label the four compartments Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual. Write the following statements onto slips of paper or cards:
Physical
Doing
Detail
Concrete
Whole context
Creating a collage
Speaking not central to learning
Sense of belonging to a community
Practical
Healthy living
Mental
Thinking
Values
Can sit for long periods of time
Wholeness
Get information from textbooks
Structures
Come to their own conclusions
Identify values
Choice Emotional
Feeling
Planning
Relating
Make connections
Talk about learning
Write about personal experiences
Assessing
Express themselves
Belonging
History and culture
Spiritual
Balance
Harmony
Culture
Connection to inner self
Cultural ceremonies
STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS
- Ask tutors what learning styles Aboriginal people might share.
- Point out that Aboriginal people often have a greater predominance of right-brain learning.
- They often learn by watching and observing.
- Show tutors the container you made and explain that it represents the Circle of Learning or the Medicine Wheel. Each divided section represents one aspect of the circle: Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual. Each of these
parts is related to a certain learning style.
- Hand out the cards on which you’ve written the words.
- Have tutors place each card into the divided area they think it belongs and give their reason for placing it into that category.
- When all the cards are in the container, ask tutors what aspects of the circle of learning they incorporate into their own learning and life experiences.
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