Designing a Lesson with Learning Styles in Mind

Click on the following url to go to Felder's Index of Learning Styles, and take the inventory. After receiving your results page, you might click on the first hot link to Learning Styles to learn more about strategies relating to your learning style. After reading the explanation, return to this page. (You can use the GO history on the browser menu, and choose Prompt Series to return here.)

http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/ilsweb.html

You might copy the following prompts and save in Word so you can respond in writing. Or you might simply print a copy of the prompts and write on the printed page.

Prompt Series:

Consider a lesson that you tend to repeat or use regularly in a class that you teach, and answer the following questions.

1. List the sequence generally (including main activities) for one lesson:

2. As best you can, roughly categorize the components of the lesson, using the learning styles categories that apply.

3. How does your learning style correspond to your teaching style?

4. What learning styles categories would you like to include in the lesson?

5. How would you do this? (Refer to table for ideas if you like.)

6. Describe which of the learning styles categories which were most difficult to incorporate into your lesson.

7. Using the table for possible options from which to choose, redesign the lesson (or design a new lesson). Try to include all learning styles. Another example in the Social Science area is available by clicking on the following link: Kolb Example Lesson.

Please direct questions to Gerry Lewin, at Lewin@sbcc.net. She would like to hear how it worked for you, and what you did to apply learning styles in your classes.