Week 9 Learning styles

When looking back on what I have done in the last nine weeks I had to admit that I read a lot of articles on methodology and tried out several tools provided by the internet. Searching on the internet is a great thing it becomes even more enjoyable if there is someone leading you on your way in an organized manner. This is what I got from this course: well organized and logically built up weekly assignments and tools I can use any time in my teaching. I did not have to find the articles for different fields of teaching during the course it was given to me and the only thing I had to do is read, think and try out the new methods/tools. It is even better than going to a library as here I got everything given to me and all I had to do is to use them properly (guides were also provided for me!).

This week's topic was learning styles. Even though I was familiar with learner styles and tried to think about it as well when preparing for my lessons or for my courses that I teach, this week gave me tools and showed me the way how I can support my students with different learner styles in my lesson. As a teacher I always tried to back up my approach and methods with the right tool and this course helped me a lot. I see things from a different  point of view as I tried out some of the tools just the way students do and I felt the same excitement they do when trying out things for the first time. With this new experience I became more student-centered and more understandable and tolerant at the same time. I have always tried to teach in a way that it would be suitable for my students and now I gained new methods/approaches and tools for it.

I enjoyed all the reading assignments and all the tools I have tried and will continue exploring them after the course. I do not want to list all the things I had done through out these nine weeks as I did not have a favorite reading or tool I loved all of them.

Eszter