Learning Styles Project

By

Chianti Leak
Educational Psychology
Dr. Suzanne Horn

AUDITORY VISUAL LEARNER

As I took the inventory evaluation I realized that I am an auditory visual learner. I do
agree with this evaluation being that as I speak with people I visualize the story that they
are explaining to me. I will do this every single time I am getting information. The
problem is that I will tend to wonder off and day dream about different things if the
information is too long and drawn out. Or I may come up with a story or situation of my
own that I want to interject into the conversation as the person is speaking and I will
interrupt them as they are speaking, because if I do not get out my thoughts on what I
need to say then I will forget what it is that I wanted to tell them. I will always try to give
some sort of feedback to whomever I am listening to so they know I am paying attention
throughout our conversation. Even if I have drifted off during some part of their dialogue
with me.

I find myself critiquing my own behavior and social schema. I do like to listen to other
peoples problems and people that know me will call me for advice and to talk about their
current issues. I have been told that I am a good listener and that I am not biased in what
I hear I just give positive feedback. One of my closest friends will call to talk or should I
say use to talk about herself and what was going on in her life, so I started telling her
about herself and why she was acting in this or that way. Her response to me was, I
know this chianti, but I didnt want to hear it! This led me to believe she just wanted to
vent without my opinion and analysis.
I think myself and people that analyze are visual thinkers, you have to be to make concise
decisions about the facts presented before you. I recently did some clinical hours at an
elementary school and I observed the entire class after the teacher gave the instructions.
My first thought was to see which child seemed to be struggling with the instructions just
given be the teacher and there were two students. One male that looked up from his desk
and saw me and quickly put his head back down but did not have the pencil to the paper.
I went over and asked if he needed help and sure enough he did. The other student,
female, seemed a bit scared to raise her hand to ask for a headset to use the in-class
computer. Once she did ask, she was unsure on how to plug it in and I walked over to
assist her.
I will say that I am selective in what I will tune in and tune out. I have a way of tuning
out constant complaining people. I literally tune them out if its the same negative
constant malarkey. I will tune out anyone that talks to me as if they want to sell me
something I am not interested in.
My overall self-analysis is that I am not surprised by the style of learning the inventory
said I had. It is exactly who I am.

The way that I learn will way a tremendous impact on my effectiveness as a teacher in
the classroom. How I grasp what and how I know what I know and in turn to translate,
facts, knowledge, statistics and theory will affect a students eptitude and aptitude.
We as adult facilitators and teachers are only as good to a student as we are to ourselves.
Being a good listener in general is a good quality and skill to have that will enable me to
hear and listen for those students that may have loss of voice. If a student is not doing
well academically verses participation in class is an eyebrow raiser. Being cognizant of
each and every students abilities and inabilities, by my own self-awareness is beneficial
to being a well-rounded effective teacher.