Learning Styles and a visit from Coker College

Today in Teacher Cadet was the first day we did not get the opportunity to work on our Big Books. Several students continually asked to work on their books, but we were on a time crunch today. We did the usual SSR and pot notes, then Mrs. Sutusky introduced our lesson for the day. She told us we were going to begin learning about different processing styles. She us “Can anyone tell me the different kinds of learning styles?” A few students in the class answered immediately, but some had no idea. We learned that there are three kinds of learning styles: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Visual learners learn best from PowerPoints or graphs, auditory learners benefit most from a lecture, and kinesthetic learners benefit most from hands on activities. After the presentation, we took a learning styles questionnaire. Several students were surprised with the results. Every student shared what type of learner they were, and some even disagreed with the results. We also had to fill out a learning style pyramid. Mrs. Sutusky surprised is with a pop quiz after the lesson, but I aced it. Two women came to visit our class from Coker College today. We partner with Coker College to receive college credit for our class. One was an admissions counselor and the other was from the College of Education at Coker. They told us all about the cool things at Coker College and about the Teacher Cadet program as well. The women also informed us about college day on November 2^nd. I am excited to attend college day in November!