B: Aboriginal Learning Styles
For those trainees who will not be working with Aboriginal learners,
this section could be used to help introduce the notion that the way
we classify learning styles is cultural.
If your trainees will be working with Aboriginal learners, you
may want to present this information in class.
- Show overhead, Aboriginal Learning Styles and highlight
pertinent areas.
- Tell trainees that, when planning a program
for Aboriginal learners, it
is important to design lessons using all 4 aspects of the
human being: mind (mental), body (physical), heart (emotions)
and spirit (intuitive).
- Touch upon the two ways learning starts (inside
and outside the person).
- Show the second overhead entitled, Aboriginal Learning
Styles.
- Use the information presented in the tutor
training manual about the different types of learners.
- Put trainees in groups of 4.
Each group (called A, B, C, D) will read
about a specific learning style and write 3 questions
about the assigned learning style. These should be written
on an overhead transparency and given to the facilitator.
- New groups (of 4) will be formed that have 1 member of A, 1 of B, 1
of C and 1 of D in them.
- Group members will need to introduce
their learning styles to the rest
of the group. Have them discuss the characteristics
associated with the learning style and some of the activities
that generally work with that style.
- Cut out the best two questions from each
of the overhead transparencies and place them on the overhead.
(You can put the questions on top of the second overhead
entitled, Aboriginal
Learning Styles to organize the questions.)
- After the groups have finished presenting, have them look at the
overhead and answer the questions in their
group. Individuals should not be answering the questions they wrote
but giving feedback to the other group members who are responding
to their questions.
- Review concepts and introduce additional points using the handout,
The Learning Process.
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